BLOOMSBURY
Fall 2021 September – December BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING AUGUST 2021
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket Stories
Hilma Wolitzer
The uncannily relevant, clear-eyed collected stories of an acclaimed, award-winning “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery—with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout.
From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer—now 90 years old and at the top of her game—has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who “raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height” (The FICTION / SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) Washington Post). These collected short stories—most of them originally Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/31/2021 published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post in the 9781635577624 | $26.00 / $34.99 Can. 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the Hardcover with dust jacket | 208 pages present—are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of motherhood. And in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often MARKETING hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer’s stories zero in on Early consumer review campaign on the domestic sphere and ordinary life with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely NetGalley observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Promotion to librarians and library marketing Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight, Indie bookseller outreach providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and is often Outreach to blogs/bookstagrammers overlooked now—reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole covering literature and memoir Social media campaign on Bloomsbury new generation of readers. accounts Digital assets: excerpt available on PRAISE Bloomsbury website National print and online campaign for “[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which reviews and features love can both change and endure.” —The New York Times Pitch for reviews and seasonal reading roundups and most anticipated lists “To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little National broadcast campaign intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on your heart and snuggle with the human race.” —Gail Godwin “Wolitzer’s vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate.” —The New York Times Book Review “Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners.” —NPR “Funny, wise, and touching.” —The Washington Post on An Available Man
Hilma Wolitzer is a critically hailed author and a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award. Her first published short story appeared in print when she was thirty-six. Eight years later, she published her first novel. Since then, her novels have drawn praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives in New York City.
2 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Unfollow Me Essays on Complicity
Jill Louise Busby
Trick Mirror meets White Fragility—an intimate and insolent essay collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from cultural commentator Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack.
Jill Louise Busby spent almost ten years in the nonprofit sector, specializing in Diversity & Inclusion. She spoke at academic institutions, businesses, and detention centers on the topics of race, power, and privilege and delivered over two hundred workshops and trainings to nonprofit organizations across the Bay Area. One summer, fed up with the faux liberal innocence of the Pacific Northwest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Busby made a short video about race, white institutions, and the danger of DISCRIMINATION intentional gradualism and posted it on Instagram. The video went viral, Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 9781635577112 | $27.00 / $36.50 Can. receiving millions of views across platforms. Over the next few years, as her Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages pithy persona Jillisblack became an “it voice” for all things race-based, Jill 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W began to notice parallels between the performances of “diversity” for the white corporate world and “wokeness” for her followers. Both, she realized, were scripted. MARKETING Unfollow Me is a memoir-in-essays about these scripts; about tokenism, National trade and consumer advertising micro-fame, and inhabiting spaces—real and virtual, black and white—where campaign at publication complicity is the price of admittance. Busby’s social commentary is wryly funny Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and finished books and achingly open-hearted as she recounts her shape-shifting moves among the Extensive social media promotion, cover subtle rules and hierarchies of “progressive” communities. Unfollow Me is a reveal and online influencer outreach deeply personal, razor-sharp critique of white fragility (and other words for ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social racism), respectability politics (and other words for shame), and all the places media Bloomsbury consumer email marketing where fear masquerades as progress. campaign Extensive independent bookseller Jill Louise Busby (or Jillisblack) had spent ten years in the nonprofit sector specializing in diversity marketing and inclusion when she posted on Instagram an incisive attack on liberal gradualism and the Book club marketing Library marketing campaign “progressive” nonprofit machine. The video went viral, making her the indulgently honest “it-voice” National media campaign including print, for all things race. She now has a loyal following of over 80,000. She continues to use her platform broadcast, and online to expose contradictions, challenge performative authenticity, and campaign for accountability. National review coverage Focus on op-ed pieces, profiles 4-city autho...
3 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret FICTION / LITERARY Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 9781635577808 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has Trade Paperback | 272 pages always known. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W For readers of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Other Available Formats: Madeline Miller’s Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an Hardcover ISBN: 9781635575637 infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
MARKETING PRAISE Major national trade and consumer advertising campaign at publication “[Piranesi] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving Extensive social media promotion and gleaming gifts in its wake . . . rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow.” online influencer outreach Giveaways via Goodreads and social —The New York Times Book Review media “A novel that feels like a surreal meditation on life in quarantine.” —The New Bloomsbury consumer email marketing Yorker campaign Book club marketing “Unforgettable—surely one of the most original works of fiction this season. It Paperback review coverage drops you into a mind-bending fantasy world . . . It’s a hypnotic tale that you can Extensive independent bookseller devour in a day (and probably will; it’s that hard to put down).” —AARP.org marketing “A high-quality page turner.” —The Wall Street Journal
Susanna Clarke is the author of the The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and the New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award–winning Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. She lives in England.
4 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
The Next Great Migration The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
Sonia Shah
A prizewinning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting—predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change.
The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet’s migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENTAL of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western SCIENCE world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries 9781635577860 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were Trade Paperback | 400 pages 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W historically porous. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a Other Available Formats: different story. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration catapulted us to the Hardcover ISBN: 9781635571974 heights of the Himalayas and the isles of the Pacific. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any MARKETING cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a Extensive social media promotion and online influencer outreach biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Migration is not the crisis: it is Giveaways via Goodreads and social the solution. media Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign through today’s anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the Book club marketing case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope. Paperback review coverage Independent bookseller marketing PRAISE “Shah [tackles] with compassion and insight a deeply complex and challenging subject . . . her work addresses issues of fundamental importance to the survival and well-being of us all.” —The New York Times Book Review “A refreshing and crucially humane counterargument to the idea that migration spells societal catastrophe . . . a provocative invitation to imagine the inevitable migration of the future as an opportunity, rather than a threat.” —The Washington Post “Dazzlingly original . . . At a moment when migrants face walls of hatred, this is a story threaded with joy and inspiration.” —Naomi Klein
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prizewinning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, “Three Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria,” has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
5 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Tenderness
Alison MacLeod
For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution...
On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a sexually bold love story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the author, D.H. Lawrence, knows it will be censored. He publishes it privately, loses his copies to customs, and dies bereft. Booker Prize-longlisted author Alison MacLeod brilliantly recreates the novel’s origins and boldly imagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie FICTION / HISTORICAL / WORLD Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer. In MacLeod’s telling, Jackie—in WAR I Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/14/2021 her last days before becoming first lady—learns that publishers are trying to 9781635576108 | $29.00 bring D.H. Lawrence’s long-censored novel to American and British readers in Hardcover with dust jacket | 624 pages its full form. The U.S. government has responded by targeting the postal service 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W for distributing obscene material. Enjoying what anonymity she has left, determined to honor a novel she loves, Jackie attends the hearing incognito. But there she is quickly recognized, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes note of MARKETING her interest and her outrage. National trade and consumer advertising Through the story of Lawrence’s writing of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the historic campaign at publication obscenity trial that sought to suppress it in the United Kingdom, and the men Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and finished books and women who fought for its worldwide publication, Alison MacLeod captures Global Bloomsbury social media the epic sweep of the twentieth century from war and censorship to sensuality promotion at launch and freedom. Exquisite, evocative, a... ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social media Bloomsbury consumer email marketing PRAISE campaign Extensive independent bookseller for All the Beloved Ghosts marketing “Through nuanced and often lyrical prose, MacLeod imbues cultural figures and Book club marketing Library marketing campaign events with color and emotional authenticity. Even rumors are swaddled in a National media campaign including luminous believability until they are beyond doubt.” —LA Review of Books pitching for print, broadcast, and online “Blends memoir and fiction to stunning effect . . . [All the Beloved Ghosts’s] interviews and features National review coverage and inclusion in haunting prose is by turns heartbreaking and uplifting, transforming the stories’ most-anticipate... heavy themes into something entirely unique.” —Paste, Best of 2017 “Striking prose . . . tapping into the unknown with compassion and genuine human emotion . . . Subtly moving and thoroughly engaging.” —Kirkus Reviews
Alison MacLeod is the Canadian-born author of three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels, and Unexploded, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2013, and two collections of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction and All the Beloved Ghosts. She is the joint winner of the 2016 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and works as professor of contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester. She lives in Brighton.
6 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
When I Grow Up The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
Ken Krimstein
From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII.
When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein’s new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before- published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of HISTORY / HOLOCAUST WWII—found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/12/2021 These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as 9781635573701 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W 2-color illustrations throughout wrote them. In When I Grow Up, Krimstein presents the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It’s as if half a dozen new Anne MARKETING Frank stories have suddenly come to light. Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and finished books He frames the book with the dramatic story of the documents’ rediscovery. Extensive social media promotion and Beautifully illustrated, heart-wrenching, bursting with life, Ken Krimstein’s online influencer outreach newest work shows us how the tragedy about to befall these young people could ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social easily happen again, to any of us, if we don’t learn to listen to the voices from media Bloomsbury consumer email marketing the past. campaign Extensive independent bookseller PRAISE marketing Book club marketing “Krimstein's deeply moving graphic memoir is not only about Hannah Arendt. It's Library marketing campaign Academic and high school crossover also, through her words, about how to live in the world, the meaning of freedom, marketing campaign the perils of totalitarianism, and our power as human beings to think about things National media campaign including print, and not just act blindly. Krimstein explains Arendt's ideas with clarity, wit, and broadcast, and online National review coverage enormous erudition, and they still resonate.” —Roz Chast Focus on op-ed pieces, profiles “Depicts Arendt in a way no other book has—bringing her passion and physicality 3-city author tour and by request to life using the medium of comics to distill Arendt's dense writings to their essence Pot... and to make us feel the passion of her thinking . . . intimate, immediate and real.” —The Forward
Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in the New Yorker, Punch, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He is the author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, which won the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir, and was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and Kvetch as Kvetch Can. He teaches at De Paul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
7 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
Daniel Sokatch
From the expert who understands both sides of the world’s most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-day Guide for the Perplexed—a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
"Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?” This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis. As the head of the New Israel Fund, which is dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis (not just Jews), Sokatch is supremely well-versed on HISTORY / MIDDLE EAST / the Israeli conflict. ISRAEL & PALESTINE Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of that conflict, and of why so many Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/21/2021 people feel so strongly about it without actually understanding it very well at all. 9781635573879 | $27.00 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages It is an attempt to understand a century-long struggle between two peoples that 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And it’s an attempt to Black and white illustrations throughout explain why Israel (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) inspires such extreme feelings — why it seems like Israel is the answer to “what is wrong with the world” for half the people in it, and “what is right with the world” for the other MARKETING half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many intelligent, Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and educated and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held finished books convictions, and about which they actually know so little? Extensive social media promotion and Easy-to-read yet fiercely penetrating and original, Can We Talk About Israel? is online influencer outreach ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social a digestible yet thoughtful and surprisingly comprehensive look at Israel and the media Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Christopher Noxon’s engaging illustrations assist in Bloomsbury consumer email marketing explaining the history and basic contours of the most complicated conflict in the campaign Extensive independent bookseller world. marketing Book club marketing PRAISE Library marketing campaign National media campaign including print, Christopher Noxon (illustrator) is a journalist and illustrator whose work has broadcast, and online appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Salon, and National review coverage and op-ed pieces and profiles his book Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook. He writes and CA author events draws in Ojai, California.
Daniel Sokatch is the chief executive officer of the New Israel Fund. He served as the executive director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Sokatch has four times been named to the Forward’s “Forward 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He lives i...
8 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Dancing with the Octopus A Memoir of a Crime
Debora Harding
One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home, where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother. It wasn’t until decades later—when beset by the symptoms of PTSD—that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/21/2021 it the sacred bond that once saved her. Dexterously shifting between the past and 9781635577846 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape Trade Paperback | 384 pages from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family’s 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W disintegration in the 1970s Midwest, a rusted landscape in which the loss of Other Available Formats: white male power can flare into unspeakable violence. Hardcover ISBN: 9781635576122 Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive. MARKETING Social media campaign Giveaways via Goodreads and social PRAISE media “A gripping memoir . . . both a heartbreaking reconstruction of a crime and a Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign powerful account of healing from trauma.” —Electric Lit, “Most Anticipated Book club marketing Debuts of the Second Half of 2020” Paperback review coverage “This moving story of grit and resilience will resonate with readers long after the Independent bookseller marketing final page is turned.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Darkly humorous . . . Harding draws a complex web of interlinked experiences to show how suffering can set up shop for good in a family and a town.” —CrimeReads, “Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020”
Debora Harding has had varied professional experiences including working in national U.S. politics for ten years, cofounding the UK’s first local terrestrial television station, and managing a bicycle business. Her work has been published in the Guardian, the Daily Mail, and Unbound, as well as other publications. She spent her childhood in Nebraska and Iowa, and lives in England with her husband, the writer Thomas Harding. She is the mother of two children, Kadian and Sam.
9 BLOOMSBURY BUSINESS SEPTEMBER 2021
Leading Remotely Achieving Success in a Globally Connected World
Mike Parkes
Packed full of research, case studies and practical advice, this is the essential guide to leading remotely.
Too often, business leaders believe that the techniques and approaches they used when leading teams in the office environment are universally practical and effective in producing strong results. But the same methods that lead to success and employee satisfaction in the office can often lead to inefficiency and presenteeism when attempted with remote team. From a seasoned expert on effective leadership, this book provides a fascinating insight into the distinct tactics and approaches that should be harnessed when BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / managing remote employees. It provides essential guidance on how to transition LEADERSHIP an office-based team to a remote set-up, before clarifying how business leaders Bloomsbury Business | 9/7/2021 can encourage employees to reach their full potential wherever they are working. 9781472991195 | $25.00 / $34.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 208 pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W Mike Parkes has worked with managers and executives for over 30 years, guiding them through their leadership and change challenges. Mike was one of the founding directors of Momentum Development and subsequently set up Momentum Results LLP, a business consultancy which he runs to this day. He previously a Chief Executive of the Development Associates Group, a subsidiary of Deloitte. Mike is the lead facilitator of the British Retail Consortium's 'Retail Masters' course at the Said Business Schoo...
10 BLOOMSBURY CONTINUUM OCTOBER 2021
The Great Deception The True Story of Britain and the European Union
Christopher Booker, Richard North
Christopher Booker’s classic story of the European Union’s “Great Deception,” now updated with new material.
Now published with a new preface explaining why The Great Deception is of the utmost importance today as it was when it was first published and to coincide with Great Britain’s EU referendum in 2016, this book suggests that the United States of Europe and its edict of “ever closer union” have been based on a colossal confidence trick. From the 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, this meticulously documented account takes the story POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY right up to the moves to give Europe a political constitution, already planned 60 & THEORY years ago to be the “crowning dream” of the whole project. Bloomsbury Continuum | 10/19/2021 The book shows how the gradual assembling of a European government has 9781472984654 | $32.00 / $43.50 Can. amounted to a “slow motion coup d'etat”—based on a strategy of deliberate Trade Paperback | 656 pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W deception, into which Britain’s leaders, Macmillan and Heath, were consciously drawn. Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, scarcely an episode of the story does not emerge in startling new light, from the real reasons why de Gaulle kept Britain out in the 1960s to the fall of Mrs. Thatcher. The book chillingly shows MARKETING how Britain’s politicians were consistently outplayed in a game the rules of Online advertising campaign with the Weekly Standard and American which they never understood. But it ends by asking whether, from the euro to Conservative enlargement, the “project” has now overreached itself, as a gamble doomed to Targeted social media advertising fail. Social media campaign featuring all Christopher Booker titles Amazon A+ content Christopher Booker was a celebrated journalist and author. He was a columnist for the Sunday National print, broadcast, and online Telegraph from 1990 to 2019 and his bestselling books include The Seven Basic Plots, and Scared to publicity campaign Death. He was the founding editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye. He died in 2019. Richard North has in recent years won a reputation as one of Britain’s most expert defense analysts, through his “Defence of the Realm” blog.
11 BLOOMSBURY SIGMA SEPTEMBER 2021
Beasts Before Us The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
Elsa Panciroli
This is the story of our most ancient of ancestors: mammals. This book reframes the narrative of mammal evolution, and proves they weren’t just precursors, they were pioneers.
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but in the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have enabled them to drastically rewrite this story. This book takes readers back to the real origin story of our mammalian ancestors, three hundred million years earlier in the alien world of the Carboniferous. In Beasts Before Us, paleontologist Elsa Panciroli charts the emergence of the SCIENCE / LIFE SCIENCES / mammal lineage, Synapsida, from their murky split from the reptiles at the dawn ZOOLOGY of life. They made the world theirs long before the rise of dinosaurs. Familiar Bloomsbury Sigma | 9/7/2021 9781472983824 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. faces like Dimetrodon flourished alongside saber-toothed hyperpredators, Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages chunky armored plant eaters, and small pig-faced diggers. Traveling forward 9.2 in H | 6 in W into the Triassic period, we learn how ancient mammal ancestors went from large hairy beasts with fast metabolisms and then evolved to exploit miniaturization, which was the key to unlocking the traits that define mammals as we know them today. Their adaptations proved so successful that to this day most mammals retain the same lifestyle—and undoubtedly our most diminutive cousins will outlive us all. This book reframes the narrative of mammal evolution and provides a counterpoint to the stereotypes of mighty dinosaur overlords and cowering mammals. It turns out the earliest mammals weren’t just precursors, they were pioneers.
Elsa Panciroli is a paleontologist who studies the evolution and ecology of extinct animals —particularly mammals from the time of dinosaurs. She is a researcher based at the University of Oxford and associate researcher at the National Museum of Scotland. Elsa has published multiple papers in academic journals, and her work takes her around the world collaborating with scientists in China, the U.S., South Africa, and Europe to understand the origin of major animal groups.
12 BLOOMSBURY SIGMA OCTOBER 2021
Worlds in Shadow Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth
Patrick Nunn
Discover ancient civilization that have disappeared beneath the ocean’s surface and explore how the science of submergence adds to our knowledge of human history.
The traces of much of human history — and that which preceded it — lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, often buried, and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused on in recent years. We now know enough to tell the true story of some of the continents and islands that have disappeared throughout Earth’s history, to explain how such things happened, and to unravel the effects of submergence on the rise and fall of human SCIENCE / EARTH SCIENCES / civilizations. GEOLOGY Worlds in Shadow is the first book to present the science of submergence in a Bloomsbury Sigma | 10/5/2021 popular format. Patrick Nunn sifts fact from fiction, using the most up-to-date 9781472983473 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages research to work out which submerged places may have actually existed versus 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W those that only exist in myth. Nunn also examines the presence of older, more ancient lands, that even the longest-reaching folk memory can’t reach. Finally, he considers why and how lands became submerged, whether from sea-level changes, tectonic changes, MARKETING Eblast to in-house science subscribers giant waves or volcanoes, and looks to the future to uncover why, when and Social media campaign where land may disappear in the future, and how to prevent it. Targeted Facebook and Google ads In his engaging and accessible style, Patrick Nunn emphasises the importance of Outreach to science and natural history understanding the submerged lands of our past. Featuring research, examples, museum stores Pre-pub outreach to science bloggers and stories from around the world, Worlds in Shadow is an important National print and online coverage contribution to the science of submergence. Online media National broadcast Patrick Nunn has spent 25 years teaching at the international University of the South Pacific in Fiji, where he was appointed Professor of Oceanic Geoscience in 1996. He moved to Australia in 2010 to work at the University of New England before being appointed to a research professorship at the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2014. Patrick has more than 230 peer-reviewed publications and has written several books, including Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific and The Edge o...
13 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
The Least of Us True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth
Sam Quinones
From the bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores fentanyl and the quiet yet groundbreaking steps communities are taking to end the opioid crisis nationwide.
Sam Quinones has traveled far and wide to investigate how drugs are created, sold, and used. Since Dreamland, he has taken note as the drug world has radically changed with the introduction of fentanyl on the market. Fentanyl — a painkiller created to be more powerful and more potent than morphine — is often found laced in cocaine, methamphetamine, and sometimes even marijuana. SOCIAL SCIENCE / DISEASE & HEALTH ISSUES Highly profitable and easy to traffic, fentanyl is the new “go-to” addictive Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/12/2021 behind hundreds of overdoses all over the United States. 9781635574357 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can. Heartbroken by the harrowing rise of an already steep death toll, counties and Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages communities both large and small have been charged with the responsibility of 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W stopping this opioid epidemic from taking any more lives. Quinones reveals how college presidents, Chambers of Commerce, clergy, hospital administrators, parents, PTAs, and others are coming together to fight the scourge in a period of MARKETING extreme political and cultural division. United by the urgent necessity for Major national trade and consumer change, these task forces, working groups, and alliances are paving the way to advertising campaign Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and recovery — igniting hope along the way that our country can be whole again. finished books Weaving together his analysis of the drug trade with moving stories about Extensive social media promotion humble communities braving the tragic darkness of an epidemic, Sam Quinones pre-and-post publication delivers an unexpected and awe-inspiring response to the call that shocked the ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social media nation in his award-winning Dreamland. Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign PRAISE Extensive independent bookseller marketing “Over the last 15 years, he has filed the best dispatches about Mexican migration Library marketing campaign National media campaign including print, and its effects on the United States and Mexico, bar none.” —Los Angeles Times broadcast, and online Book Review National review coverage with op-ed “A driven and important narrative.” —Wall Street Journal pieces and profiles Targeted media campaign in the West & “You won’t find this story told better anywhere else, from the economic Midwest hollowing-out of the middle class to the greedy and reckless marketing of 4-city+ author ... pharmaceutical opiates to the remarkable entrepreneurial industry of the residents of the obscure Mexican state of Nayarit . . . Dreamland—true crime, sociology, and exposé—illuminates a catastrophe unfolding all around us, right now.” —Slate
Sam Quinones is a journalist, author and storyteller whose two acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration, the New York Times bestseller Dreamland and Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, have made him, according to the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, “the most original writer on Mexico and the border.” He lives in Los Angeles.
14 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Fight Night
Miriam Toews
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply human new novel about three generations of women.
When Swiv is temporarily kicked out of school, her grandma gives her an assignment to write a letter to her absent father. Swiv’s assignment to Grandma is to write a letter to Gord, her unborn grandchild and Swiv’s brother or sister. “You are a small thing,” Grandma writes to Gord, “but you must learn to fight.” Grandma has been fighting all her life: from her upbringing in a strictly religious community, ruled over by the odious Will Braun, she has fought the people who wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit; she has fought to FICTION / FAMILY LIFE protect her family, and she has fought to make peace with her loved ones when Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/5/2021 they have chosen to leave her. Swiv’s mother, too, is fighting “on every front,” 9781635578171 | $24.00 as Grandma puts it, “Internally. Externally.” Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages Fight Night is a love letter to the mothers and grandmothers who have raised us, 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W and to all the women who know what it costs to live in this world, but who are still finding a way—painfully, ferociously—to live on their own terms.
MARKETING PRAISE PRE-PUBLICATION: Major early online consumer review campaign “Fight Night is a headlong rush of a novel narrated by a precocious eight-year-old Social media influencer outreach/posting girl who is doing everything she can to keep her troubled mother from falling Animated jacket trailer Library and bookseller marketing apart and her irrepressible grandmother alive. Tender, heart-wrenching, darkly campaign funny, and ultimately joyful, this novel pulses with life.” —Christina Baker Kline, ARCs at Regional conferences or other bestselling author of The Exiles and Orphan Train relevant shows AT PUB: Major national trade and consumer advertising at publication “Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest . . . [Miriam Toews] is an artist of escape; National print and online media campaign Blogger and Bookstagram influencer she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate outreach campaign themselves.” —The New Yorker Massive social media campaign at “A feminist manifesto that delicately unwraps the horror, but also bubbles with the publication Book club marketing at publication; lo... reading group guide available at publication... Miriam Toews is the author of seven previous bestselling novels, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, and Irma Voth, and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
15 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Truffle Hound On the Trail of the World’s Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs
Rowan Jacobsen
A revelatory, captivating exploration into the secretive and sensuous world of truffles, the elusive food that has captured hearts, imaginations, and palates worldwide.
The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists, muddy dogs, maddening smells, and some of the most memorable late-night meals ever created. COOKING / SPECIFIC INGREDIENTS / NATURAL Truffles attract dreamers, schemers, and sensualists. People spend years training FOODS dogs to find them underground (or pay absurd amounts for a ringer). They plant Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/5/2021 entire forests of oaks and wait a decade for truffles to appear. They pay $3,000 a 9781635575194 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. pound to possess them. They turn into quivering puddles in their presence. Why? Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages Truffle Hound is the fascinating account of Rowan's quest to find out. Both an 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W 2 16-page color inserts entertaining odyssey and a manifesto, Truffle Hound demystifies truffles—and then remystifies them. It helps people understand why they respond so strongly, shows them there’s more to truffles than they ever imagined, and gives them all the tools they need to take their own truffle love to the next level. Deeply MARKETING informed, unabashedly passionate, rakishly readable, Truffle Hound will spark Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and finished books America’s next great culinary passion. Extensive social media promotion, cover reveal and foodie outreach PRAISE ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social media “Here are the Winesap, the Pound Sweet, the Maiden’s Blush and Black Twig, Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign rendered in a vivid prose rarely seen outside of the wine list . . . For anyone who’s Independent bookseller marketing willing to get swept up in the grand romance of food, this handsome volume will Library marketing campaign make for seductive reading.” —Morning Edition, NPR, on Apples of Uncommon National media campaign including print, broadcast, and online Character Holiday gift guide inclusions “One of the most remarkable single-subject books to come along in a while . . . Author events by request and at festivals Jacobsen covers oysters in exhaustive detail, but with writing so engaging and sprightly that reading about the briny darlings is almost as compulsive as eating them.” —Los Angeles Times on A Geography of Oysters
Rowan Jacobsen is the author of the James Beard Award–winning A Geography of Oysters, Apples of Uncommon Character, The Essential Oyster, and other books. His books have been named to numerous Top Ten lists, and he has been featured on All Things Considered, The Splendid Table, Morning Edition, and CBS This Morning, and in the pages of Bon Appétit, Saveur, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He lives in Vermont.
16 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
The Farmer's Lawyer The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm
Sarah Vogel
The unforgettable true story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers.
In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and / PERSONAL MEMOIRS single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/19/2021 9781635575262 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. and, inspired by the politicians who had helped farmers in the ‘30s, she naively Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages built a solo practice of clients who couldn’t afford to pay her. Sarah began 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W drowning in debt and soon her own home was facing foreclosure. In a David and B+W throughout Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration’s Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers’ MARKETING Constitutional rights. It was her first case. National trade and consumer advertising A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, campaign The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and finished books daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect Social media promotion pre-and-post it, and what we can learn from Sarah’s battle as a similar calamity looms large publication on our horizon once again... ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social media Bloomsbury consumer email marketing PRAISE campaign Independent bookseller marketing “I’m a huge fan of Sarah and the work she’s done to help family farmers.” Library marketing campaign —Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of MAID National media campaign including print, broadcast, and online “In farm country, [Sarah] Vogel has earned a reputation as ‘a giant killer in ag National review coverage with op-ed law.’” —The Nation pieces and profiles Targeted media campaign in the West & Midwest Sarah Vogel is the first woman elected Commission of Agriculture and one of the foremost Author events by request and tie-in to agriculture lawyers in the United States. The American Agricultural Law Association awarded her au... its Distinguished Service Award, and Willie Nelson honored Sarah at Farm Aid’s 30th Anniversary for her longtime service to family farmers. Hailed as “a giant killer in ag law” by The Nation, Sarah served for decades as co-counsel on the Keepseagle case filed to redress USDA’s race discrimination against Native Am...
17 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
The Power Worshippers Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
Katherine Stewart
POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/2/2021 9781635577877 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 384 pages 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W
Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781635573435
MARKETING Social media campaign Giveaways via Goodreads and social media Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign Paperback review coverage Independent bookseller marketing
18 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
The Anarchy The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple
The epic story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.
In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up in his place a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India HISTORY / ASIA / INDIA & Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much SOUTH ASIA more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/5/2021 colonial power. Over the course of the next forty-seven years, the company’s 9781635575804 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a Trade Paperback | 576 pages 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W boardroom in the city of London. 16-page color insert The Anarchy tells one of history’s most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire—which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781635573954 unlimited resources—fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation based thousands of miles overseas and answerable to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth was providing their dividends. Using previously untapped sources, Dalrymple MARKETING National paperback review coverage tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before and National consumer advertising campaign provides a portrait of the devastating results from the abuse of corporate power. Consumer review campaign via social Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize media Feature in Bloomsbury newsletters PRAISE One of President Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2019 “Rampaging, brilliant, passionate history . . . [Dalrymple] has no rival as a narrative historian of the British in India.” —The Wall Street Journal “Superb. . . a vivid and richly detailed story . . . worth reading by everyone.” —The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . Dalrymple has taken us to the limit of what page-turning history can be and do.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A great story told in fabulous detail with interesting, if at times utterly rapacious or incompetent, characters populating it.” —NPR.org
William Dalrymple is the author of nine books about India and the Islamic world, including Return of a King, which won the Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, PEN Hessell-Tiltman, and Duff Cooper Prizes. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the Guardian and is one of the founders and a codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
19 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
A Court of Thorns and Roses Hardcover Box Set
Sarah J. Maas FICTION / FANTASY / ROMANCE Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/12/2021 9781635577716 | $138.00 / $187.00 Can. All five of the Court of Thorns and Roses hardcovers in a luxe Hardcover with dust jacket | 3300 pages box set perfect for the holiday season.
“Passionate, violent, sexy and daring . . . A true page-turner.” —USA MARKETING TODAY on A Court of Thorns and Roses Social media campaign Feyre is a huntress. The skin of a wolf would bring enough gold to feed her Consumer and trade advertising campaign sisters for a month. But the life of a magical creature comes at a steep price, and Feyre has just killed the wrong wolf . . . Follow Feyre’s journey into the dangerous, alluring world of the Fae, where she will lose her heart, face her demons, and learn what she is truly capable of. The world expands in A Court of Silver Flames with the story of Feyre’s fiery sister, Nesta. This stunning, five-book box set of the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas includes A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Frost and Starlight, and A Court of Silver Flames.
Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City series. Her books have sold more than 13 million copies and are published in thirty-seven languages. Sarah lives with her husband, son, and dog.
20 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
Shelter in Place
David Leavitt
David Leavitt returns with his signature “coolly elegant prose” (O, The Oprah Magazine) to deliver a comedy of manners for the Trump era.
It is the Saturday after the 2016 election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of New Yorkers has just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump? Liberal and like-minded—editors, writers, a decorator, a theater producer, and one financial guy, Eva’s husband, Bruce—the friends have gathered to try to regroup. Yet with the exception of one obnoxious book editor, none is willing to accept Eva’s challenge. Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, furniture and rooms, safety FICTION / LITERARY and freedom and the invidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/9/2021 even the most seemingly impregnable foundations. Eva is the novel’s polestar, a 9781620404881 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. woman who moves through her days accompanied by a roving, carefully curated Trade Paperback | 384 pages 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W salon. She’s a generous hostess and more than a bit of a control freak. Yet when, in her avidity to secure shelter for herself, she persuades Bruce to buy a grand if Other Available Formats: dilapidated apartment in Venice, she sets off the chain of events that propel him Hardcover ISBN: 9781620404874 to venture outside the bubble and embark on a wholly unexpected love affair. A comic portrait of the months immediately following the 2016 election, Shelter in Place is also a meditation on the unreliable appetites—for love, for power, for MARKETING freedom—by which both our public and private lives are shaped. National print and online advertising campaign Social media campaign PRAISE Giveaways via Goodreads and social media “There is an art to writing about unlikable people while still engaging the reader Bloomsbury consumer email marketing to invest in their indulgence, vanity and, yes, happiness . . . compelling . . . [and] campaign Book club marketing kookily endearing.” —The New York Times Book Review Paperback review coverage “Allusions to Edith Wharton and Henry James abound. Leavitt easily nails the Independent bookseller marketing trappings of entitlement, [playing] privileged, shallow characters for their unwitting part in the current reality.” —NPR.org “Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet.” —Rachel Cusk “More about the concept of Trump than the election itself . . . a brilliant fiction.” —Washington Independent Review of Books
David Leavitt is the author of the collection Family Dancing and the novels The Lost Language of Cranes, While England Sleeps, The Body of Jonah Boyd, The Indian Clerk (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and The Two Hotel Francforts. He is also the author of two nonfiction works, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Florence, A Delicate Case. He is professor of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville and edits the literary magazine Subtropics. www.davidleavittwriter.com
21 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Beheld
TaraShea Nesbit
From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos, the story of a stranger’s arrival in the fledgling Plymouth Colony—and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough. FICTION / HISTORICAL With gripping, immersive details and exquisite prose, TaraShea Nesbit reframes Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/19/2021 the story of the pilgrims in the previously unheard voices of two women of very 9781635576559 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. different status and means. She evokes a vivid, ominous Plymouth, populated by Trade Paperback | 288 pages famous and unknown characters alike, each with conflicting desires and 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W questionable behavior. Other Available Formats: Suspenseful and beautifully wrought, Beheld is about a murder and a trial, and Hardcover ISBN: 9781635573220 the motivations—personal and political—that cause people to act in unsavory ways. It is also an intimate portrait of love, motherhood, and friendship that asks: Whose stories get told over time, who gets believed—and subsequently, MARKETING who gets punished? National print and online advertising campaign Trade advertising campaign PRAISE Social media campaign Giveaways via Goodreads and social “In this plain-spoken and lovingly detailed historical novel, the story of the media Mayflower Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony is refracted through the prism of female Bloomsbury consumer email marketing characters . . . Its currency is the human capacity for cruelty and subjugation, of campaign Book club marketing pretty much everyone by pretty much everyone.” —New York Times Book Review Paperback review coverage Editors’ Choice Independent bookseller marketing “I have been waiting for this book. But I’m not alone. There has been a sort of impatience and delicious anticipation felt by those waiting to be inside TaraShea Nesbit’s much talked about Beheld.” —Sarah Jessica Parker, via Instagram
TaraShea Nesbit is the author of The Wives of Los Alamos, a national bestseller, a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice, among other accolades. Her writing has been featured in Granta, The Guardian, Fourth Genre, Salon, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. An assistant professor at Miami University, she lives in southwestern Ohio with her family.
22 BLOOMSBURY BUSINESS OCTOBER 2021
Retail Recovery How Creative Retailers Are Winning in Their Post-Apocalyptic World
Mark Pilkington
A fascinating insight into how retailers can recover and thrive in retailing’s “new normal.”
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of new forces which are changing the way we buy products and experience brands. It includes in-depth interviews with some of the most innovative players—from John Lewis in the UK, to Nike and Patagonia in the US—to draw out key learning points for the rest of the industry, across the globe. It also provides essential guidelines for governments, as they strive to rebuild society in the wake of recent catastrophes. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / The traditional retail industry has been devastated by the twin effects of the CONSUMER BEHAVIOR internet and the Coronavirus lockdown. Huge numbers of prestigious brands Bloomsbury Business | 10/19/2021 9781472987174 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. have gone under, or are a shadow of their former selves. The world economy has Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages gone into deep recession, with reduced employment and incomes across broad 9.2 in H | 6 in W swathes of society. Many discretionary products have simply become too expensive for ordinary people to buy on a regular basis. High streets and shopping malls lie half empty, causing a vacuum at the core of our societies. MARKETING There is an urgent need to regenerate our local shopping centers, in order to Review copies to business media create new hope in depressed areas. So how can retailers and brands respond to Consumer reviews on NetGalley this crisis? Fortunately, new shoots of recovery are emerging from the wreckage Inclusion in seasonal business of the old order—new brands, new technology, new ways of providing value, e-newsletter ISSUU sampler on bloomsbury.com and new and innovative methods of creating excitement to draw in consumers, Targeted Facebook and Google ads all of which have the potential to kick-start the retail economy. Outreach to business organizations & MBA programs Online advertising through AdBiblio Mark Pilkington is an experienced retailer and consultant, now based in the UK. After graduating targeting readers of the WSJ and Forbes from INSEAD, he joined Courtaulds, eventually becoming CEO of Gossard. While there, he Targeted outreach to top business and coordinated the initial launch of the Wonderbra. He has worked on joint ventures with M&S tech publication (marksandspencer.com), and has consulted extensively in the Middle East. His is currently a consultant for major retail groups in Europe, the U.S., the Middle East, and Asia.
23 BLOOMSBURY CONTINUUM NOVEMBER 2021
Benedict XVI: A Life Volume Two: Guardian of the Faith, Pope, Pope Emeritus 1965–The Present
Peter Seewald
The second volume of Peter Seewald’s magisterial life of Pope Benedict covers the period from the Second Vatican Council (1965–68) to the present day.
Emeritus Pope Benedict commands both adulation and unremitting criticism. In this second volume of Peter Seewald’s authoritative biography, the story runs from the Second Vatican Council (1965–68) that shaped Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s conservative ideas about the role of the Catholic Church, through his short, scandal-ridden papacy and unprecedented resignation. Volume II RELIGION / CHRISTIANITY / introduces readers to the Pope Emeritus living in the Vatican Gardens, CATHOLIC contemplating the future of the Church and his controversial legacy within it. Bloomsbury Continuum | 11/9/2021 9781472979216 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. We see how Benedict was influenced by the Vatican Council and the ensuing Hardcover with dust jacket | 400 pages political unrest all over Europe in the 1960s. Appointed in 1981 as Prefect of the 9.2 in H | 6 in W Congregation of Doctrine of the Faith, and quickly nicknamed “God’s 8 page black and white plate section Rottweiler,” he was intransigent on the controversial issues of abortion, contraception, gay rights, and gay marriage. But elected Pope in 2005, his tenure of office was riven with shocking revelations of controversy and scandal and it MARKETING seemed that by his resignation in 2013, he was incapable of handling the Major print advertising campaign: Catholic complexities of the Church in the modern world. Digest, Sojourners, Christianity Today Online advertising with AdBiblio Vatileaks, sexual abuse by priests, the Regensburg speech which became the Sampler available on ISSUU spark of an eruption of rage in the Muslim world—all these hit the world’s Prepublication consumer reviews on media headlines. NetGalley and Goodreads Peter Seewald is the only person close enough to Benedict to assess the man Targeted advertising on Facebook and Google himself and to uncover the truth about so many of the controversial issues Promotion to Bloomsbury Academic’s surrounding this papacy. religion subscribers Amazon A+ content Amazon sponsored product campaign Peter Seewald has worked as a journalist for Stern, Spiegel, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and is one Social media campaign of the most admired authors on religion in Germany today. He is one of the writers closest to Pope Featured title in 2021 holiday gift Benedict and has interviewed him for countless hours. His book of conversations with Pope campaign Benedict, Last Testament, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2016, and the first volume of Galley mailing to American Catholics and his biography of the Pope Emeritus will be published in late 2020. archdiocese
24 GREEN TREE NOVEMBER 2021
Coming Clean A true story of love, addiction and recovery
Liz Fraser
In this wrenching debut memoir of love, family, and addiction, Liz Fraser tells her story of watching a partner unravel from alcoholism and working to rebuild a life together.
“My name is Liz, and I am the partner of an alcoholic.” This is the story of two people in love, who packed up their lives and drove a thousand miles across Europe in a transit van to the magical island of Venice to start their new lives and dreams together and raise their baby girl there. They left behind everything they didn’t need. But they also brought something terrible with them: alcoholism. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY In the summer of 2019, Liz Fraser watched her husband fall into a catastrophic / PERSONAL MEMOIRS vortex of depression, alcoholism, and self-destruction, which, unbeknownst to Green Tree | 11/30/2021 her, had been slowly bubbling and building for years. She was suddenly left 9781472986375 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages alone with their baby, in a foreign country, renovating a house, and paying all 9.2 in H | 6 in W the family bills along with his enormous drink-related costs. She worked when she could with no childcare or support, all while slowly losing her mind from shock, exhaustion, and heartbreak. In Coming Clean, Liz tells her story—of life with an alcoholic at his darkest moments, and the uncertain journey through recovery as her husband nears six months of sobriety. With this raw, wrenching memoir, she gives a voice and offers hope to everyone watching a loved one struggle with substance abuse with the crucial reminder: You are not alone.
Liz Fraser is a well-seasoned writer and broadcaster on all aspects of modern family life. Liz appears frequently on TV and radio and has written for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Grazia, Glamour, Marie Claire, Red, the Daily Mail, Mother and Baby, Junior, Woman, Runner’s World, and many others. Liz has four children, ranging in age from twenty-two to two and is an annoyingly competitive 10km and half-marathon runner. She lives in Oxford with her partner, Mike, and their 2-year-old daughter, Scout...
25 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
The Island of Missing Trees A Novel
Elif Shafak
A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic and chilis and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their secret love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the taverna’s blackened roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to FICTION / LITERARY their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/2/2021 the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. 9781635578591 | $27.00 / $37.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W really, he’s searching for Defne. Reunited, the two London-bound lovers return to the taverna to take a clipping from the fig tree and smuggle it into their suitcase. Years later, the fig tree in the garden is their daughter Ada's only
MARKETING knowledge of a home she has never visited and guides her as she seeks to National trade and consumer advertising untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and A moving, beautifully written and delicately constructed story of love, division, finished books transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Social media promotion leading to launch ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social Elif Shafak's best work yet. media Bloomsbury consumer email marketing PRAISE campaign Independent bookseller marketing 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World"Shafak writes with vision, bravery Book club marketing and compassion . . . a stunning portrait of a city, a society, a small community and Library marketing campaign Virtual US author tour featuring “in a single soul." —The New York Times Book Review conversation with” events with bookstores, "A deeply humane story about the cruel effects of Turkey’s intolerant sexual libraries and speaking series attitudes . . . Shafak is a master of captivating moments that provide a sprawling National broadcast interview campaign National print and online review and and intimate vision of Istanbul." —The Washington Post feature campaign "Gripping." —NPR O...
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish author who has published 18 books translated into 50 languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the US, and the UK, including Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She contributes to major publications around the world, has been awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and is a member of the Royal Society of Literature.
26 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
A Previous Life
Edmund White
A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel from National Book Award–honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love.
Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero and his younger, American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. As the two alternate reading the memoirs they’ve written about their lives, Constance reveals her multiple marriages to older men, and Ruggero details the affairs he’s had with men and women across his lifetime—most importantly his passionate affair with the author Edmund White. Sweeping outward from the isolated Swiss ski chalet where the couple reads to FICTION / LGBTQ+ / GAY travel through Europe and the United States, White’s new novel pushes for a Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/30/2021 broader understanding of sexual orientation and pairs humor and truth to create 9781635577273 | $26.00 / $35.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages his most fascinating and complex characters to date. As in all of White’s earlier 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W novels, this is a searing, scintillating take on physical beauty and its inevitable decline. But in this experimental new mode—one where the author has laid himself bare as a secondary character—White explores the themes of love and age through numerous eyes, hearts, and minds. MARKETING National trade and consumer advertising Delightful, irreverent, and experimental, A Previous Life proves once more why campaign at publication White is considered a master of American literature. Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and finished books Global Bloomsbury social media PRAISE promotion at launch “Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun, America’s great Man of Letters is working at ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social media the top of his form, giving us a pair of portraits hung against the pattern of Bloomsbury consumer email marketing history. What a joy to read this master of prose and invention!” —Andrew Sean campaign Extensive independent bookseller Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less marketing Book club marketing for A Saint from Texas: Library marketing campaign National media campaign including “The books by 80-year-old American novelist, memoirist, and essayist Edmund pitching for print, broadcast, and online White—honest, fierce, and joyful explorations of love, sex, and family—have been interviews and features breaking boundaries and engaging readers for nearly 50 years. His latest [is] . . . a National review coverage and inclusion in most-anticipate... stunner about the secrets and dreams that bind two very different women.” —AARP “Edmund White’s narra...
Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and Our Young Man. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs, literary biographies, and essays. He was named the 2018 winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and received the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
27 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
What Dogs Want
Mat Ward
A smart, fun illustrated guide to decoding your dog's feelings, from internationally celebrated pet behaviorist Mat Ward.
Your dog is your best friend. But it's not always easy to know what your dog is trying to tell you. In What Dogs Want, you'll uncover the meaning of your pooch's body language and bark as you learn fascinating new details about how dogs see, smell, think, and live in the world at any age. Every page has illustrations that perfectly sum up what's going on in your dog's head (spoiler alert: usually it's playing, sleeping, or eating...). A world leader in modern dog-training, Mat Ward demonstrates that once you understand your puppy or dog, you can train them with love and encouragement, PETS / DOGS making them feel comfortable and totally at home in your house. Once your dog Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/2/2021 feels supported in this way, Mat shows, you can give them better care and help 9781526639950 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can. them overcome tough issues like separation anxiety. What Dogs Want also Hardcover with dust jacket | 160 pages 8.3 in H | 5.8 in W teaches exciting new games that encourage you and your furry friend to 2-color illustrations communicate—and have a whole lot of fun! A simple guide to giving your dog a safe and happy life, What Dogs Want is a must-have book for the dog lover in us all.
Mat Ward is a dog behaviorist who champions reward-based training and he has helped thousands of owners improve their pet’s wellbeing over the past two decades. In 2016, he taught a rescue dog to fly a plane for the TV show Dogs Might Fly. Mat lives in New Zealand with his wife, children, two cats and two dogs. Rupert Fawcett is a British cartoonist and writer, who is best known for his critically acclaimed comic strips, Fred (produced since 1989), Daddy and Off The Leash. He lives in the UK.
28 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
A Saint from Texas
Edmund White
From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood.
Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy’s land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams—ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. FICTION / LITERARY Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White’s marvelous novel serves Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/16/2021 up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse 9781635577051 | $18.00 / $25.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W pretension of the Paris gratin, and the strict piety of a Colombian convent. For nearly half a century, Edmund White’s work has revitalized American literature, Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781635572551 blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint from Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date.
MARKETING PRAISE National paperback review coverage Consumer review campaign via social “The books by . . . Edmund White—honest, fierce and joyful explorations of love, media sex, and family—have been breaking boundaries and engaging readers for nearly Feature in Bloomsbury newsletters 50 years. His latest whisks us from the hardscrabble Texas prairie to the streets of Social media campaign including giveaways Paris and Colombia . . . a stunner about the secrets and dreams that bind two very different women.” ?AARP.org “An audacious new novel by Edmund White, whose sympathy for his Texas-born characters radiates like a kind of blessing through their myriad adventures, sacred as well as secular, and always sensuously alive.” ?Joyce Carol Oates “At once funny and moving, this is a ribald novel of the miraculous.”...
Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and Our Young Man. His nonfiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, The Unpunished Vice, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. He was named the 2018 winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and received the 2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundati...
29 RAVEN BOOKS NOVEMBER 2021
Psycho by the Sea
Lynne Truss
In the latest installment of this charming series, a trio of detectives are faced with the arrival of an escaped criminal with an unlikely penchant for boiling the heads of policemen.
It’s September in the British beach town of Brighton, and the city is playing host to weeks of endless rain and some brand new villains. A trusted member of a local gang has disappeared part way through planning a huge heist; a violent criminal obsessed with boiling the heads of policemen has escaped a local prison, and at Gosling’s department store, an American researcher has been found dead in the music section. Inspector Steine has other things on his mind—since the triumphant conclusion to his last case, Steine has so many awards and invitations coming his way that FICTION / MYSTERY & he has had to take on a secretary—but Sergeant Brunswick and Constable DETECTIVE / COZY “Clever Clogs” Twitten are both on the case. If only they could work out just Raven Books | 11/9/2021 who is behind these dastardly acts . . . 9781526609878 | $27.00 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W Lynne Truss is a columnist, writer, and broadcaster whose book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, was a New York Times bestseller. She has written extensively for radio and is the author of eight previous novels. The Constable Twitten series has so far won the Last Laugh Award at CrimeFest and was longlisted for the CWA Daggers. Lynne lives in Sussex with her three Norfolk MARKETING Terriers. Targeted influencer mailing with finished books Global Bloomsbury social media promotion Finished copy giveaways via Goodreads and social Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign Independent bookseller marketing Library marketing National media campaign including pitching for print, broadcast, and online interviews and features National review coverage and inclusion in roundups and gift guides
30 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
Essential
Ollie Dabbous
Everyday recipes for home cooks, from a Michelin-starred chef.
The best food is always the simplest, whether you are cooking at home or in a restaurant. Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous is here to help home cooks everywhere elevate go-to dishes into something special, through easy techniques, few pieces of equipment, and concise ingredients that work together to create the most delicious flavors. Organized by ingredient type, from grains to shellfish to sugar and honey, the 100 recipes in Essential are all basics that Dabbous teaches us how to make just COOKING / METHODS / QUICK & right. Ranging from baked eggs, roasted vegetables, and flatbread to dishes with EASY a bit more flair, like creamy spinach toast, meals made from Essential are sure to Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/2/2021 wow whoever sits down to eat at the table. 9781408843956 | $35.00 / $48.00 Can. With gorgeous photographs and sleek, elegantly classic design, Essential is the Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages 9.7 in H | 7.4 in W can’t-miss cookbook for home cooks looking to ace their everyday menu. 2-color illustrations throughout Ollie Dabbous knew he wanted to be a chef from the age of six, and started cooking as a kitchen hand in Florence when he was fifteen. He worked at Kensington Place for Rowley Leigh, but it was his years spent working with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons that most profoundly MARKETING influenced his cooking. He went on to be head chef at the Scandinavian-influenced Texture on Targeted influencer mailing with finished Portman Street, and has also spent time at Mugaritz, Noma, Hibiscus, L’Astrance, Pierre Gagnaire, books and WD50. In January ... Global Bloomsbury social media promotion Finished copy giveaways via Goodreads and social Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign Independent bookseller marketing National media campaign including pitching for print, broadcast, and online interviews and features National review coverage and inclusion in gift guides and most-anticipated lists
31 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
The Rice Book
Sri Owen
The definitive book on rice, featuring more than 140 recipes from across the globe, from Sri Owen, winner of the 2017 Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award.
Rice is the staple food for more than half the world, and the creativity with which people approach this humble grain knows no bounds. In The Rice Book, an instant classic when it published thirty years ago, renowned Indonesian chef and food writer Sri Owen builds on extensive travels and years of research to share recipes for biryanis, risottos, pilafs, and paellas from Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Spain, Italy, Brazil, and beyond. With a fully updated introduction on the nutrition, history, and culture COOKING / SPECIFIC surrounding rice, more than 140 delicious, foolproof recipes, and beautiful INGREDIENTS / RICE & GRAINS two-color illustrations throughout, Sri Owen’s The Rice Book is an essential Bloomsbury Publishing | 11/9/2021 9781526621634 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. book for every kitchen and every cook. Hardcover with dust jacket | 416 pages 9.6 in H | 6.7 in W Sri Owen is a renowned Indonesian cook and food writer, and author of several cookbooks 2-color illustrations throughout including Indonesian and Thai Cookery, The Indonesian Kitchen, and The Rice Book, which won the André Simon Award. Since her first book was published in 1976, Sri has established herself as one of the preeminent food writers in the UK, and her unrivalled expertise saw her win the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. She lives in London with her husband, Roger. MARKETING Targeted influencer mailing with finished books Global Bloomsbury social media promotion Finished copy giveaways via Goodreads and social Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign Independent bookseller marketing National media campaign including pitching for print, broadcast, and online interviews and features National review coverage and inclusion in gift guides and most-anticipated lists
32 BLOOMSBURY BUSINESS NOVEMBER 2021
Intentional Leader, The How Inner Authority Can Unleash Strong Leadership
Tim Herbert
An essential guide to the elements that create strong leadership, with a particular focus upon a compassionate, empathetic approach.
When leaders don’t take time to self-reflect and connect with their values, they will almost always fall short of their responsibilities. Successful leaders inspire their employees to rally behind the organizational cause – whether that be developing cutting-edge technologies or selling fast food. This is intentional leadership. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Drawing upon his extensive experience as a business leader and consultant, Tim LEADERSHIP Herbert provides practical advice and accessible guidance that will bolster Bloomsbury Business | 11/9/2021 9781472990075 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. business leaders across all industries. With an engaging combination of Hardcover with dust jacket | 224 pages high-profile case studies, first-hand experiences and enlightening research, The 9.2 in H | 6 in W Intentional Leader is the essential guide to cultivating authentic and effective leadership.
Tim Herbert is a business owner, keynote speaker, writer and workshop facilitator. Tim currently serves as CEO and Founder of Trilix, a business and technology consulting firm. While CEO and President of Atrion, a leading IT services firm, he grew the company to a value of $170 million with over 260 employees.
33 BLOOMSBURY BUSINESS NOVEMBER 2021
Performance Curve,The Maximize Your Potential at Work while Strengthening Your Well-being
Laura Watkins, Vanessa Dietzel
A holistic and engaging guide to both individual and collective performance in business, underpinned by neuroscience and psychological research.
For the first time, The Performance Curve interweaves the individual and the collective to produce a bold new holistic guide to improving business performance. Laura Watkins and Vanessa Dietzel draw upon their vast experience and research as consultants and leadership coaches to demonstrate that this unifying approach produces the most effective and sustainable results BUSINESS & ECONOMICS across the board. Bloomsbury Business | 11/30/2021 9781472985545 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. Crucially, organizations are beginning to recognize that long-term strategies and Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages optimized processes can only get them so far. This book demonstrates how the 9.2 in H | 6 in W human element is key for making any campaign or initiative successful. Similarly, individual success cannot be achieved within a vacuum — people must consider how they can personally prosper through the opportunities MARKETING available within their organization. Inclusion in eblast to in-house business The book’s practical advice on maximizing performance capabilities is subscribers underpinned by a robust and unique combination of neuroscience, psychological Outreach to business organizations & research and mindfulness. The Performance Curve is an eminently engaging and MBA programs National print and online review/feature practical consolidation of the concepts, approaches and tools that Laura and campaign Vanessa have developed over years of expert experience. Targeted outreach to top business and science publications Laura Watkins is co-founder of The Cognitas Group, which helps leaders thrive, perform, and build powerful organizations. She has a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Cambridge University and an MA in Physiology and Psychology from Oxford University. Vanessa Dietzel is a consultant with The Cognitas Group. She has over 15 years’ experience working with senior executives and management on a wide range of issues, including strategy development, operational improvement, and leadership effectiveness.
34 BLOOMSBURY BUSINESS DECEMBER 2021
Futureproof Your Career A Practical Guide to Success in the New Normal
Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Naeema Pasha
The essential guide to futureproofing your career and getting ahead in the highly competitive job market of the 21st century.
Futureproof Your Career provides original and practical guidance for improving your career and taking full advantage of opportunities for progression. It places a major focus on the changing business, economic, and technological landscape, and the new challenges this presents for job retention and career progression. With the impact of the pandemic, the ongoing fourth industrial revolution, the broadening awareness of institutionalized discrimination, and the concerns around an economic recession, it is almost an understatement to say that we’re BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / entering a “new normal” in which working patterns and career trajectories have CAREERS irreversibly changed. Futureproof Your Career provides key insights into how Bloomsbury Business | 12/14/2021 9781472988447 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. these changes will impact the essential functions and roles within organizations Trade Paperback | 288 pages and how, with a greater awareness of how these changes are unfolding, readers 9.2 in H | 6 in W will be able to develop a stronger awareness of new opportunities and will be better prepared to safeguard their jobs and bolster their career in this new landscape. MARKETING From two leading academics, this is both a practical guide to success and an Eblast to in-house business subscribers enlightening insight into the future of work. It draws upon both the authors’ Outreach to business organizations and academic research and an international array of case studies and interviews to MBA programs provide engaging and illuminating insights that will help any professional with AdBiblio campaign to readers of Forbes, WSJ, etc. their career—whether they’re a C-suite executive or just starting out. Targeted advertising to executives and business school students Dr. Shaheena Junjuha-Jivraj is associate professor in entrepreneurial leadership at Henley National print and online review/feature Business School. She has worked in entrepreneurship for two decades and specializes in bringing campaign Outreach to top psychology and innovative thinking to organizations. career/leadership publications Dr. Naeema Pasha is director of Careers & Professional Development at Henley Business School and founder of World of Work, an annual conference on the future of work. She has won multiple awards in professional development, and speaks on flexible working and the gig economy.
35 BLOOMSBURY SIGMA NOVEMBER 2021
Aesop’s Animals The Facts Behind the Fables
Jo Wimpenny
A critical look at the beloved fables that investigates whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop’s portrayal of his animals.
Despite being conceived over two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop’s Fables are still passed from parent to child today, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. But have these stories influenced our views of the animal protagonists? And, if so, is there any truth behind the stereotypes? Are crows smart enough to reason? Are ants truly capable of looking ahead to the future and planning their actions? SCIENCE / LIFE SCIENCES / In Aesop's Animals, zoologist Jo Wimpenny turns a critical eye to the fables and ZOOLOGY ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop’s portrayal of his animals. She Bloomsbury Sigma | 11/2/2021 introduces the latest scientific research on some of the most fascinating topics in 9781472966919 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages animal behavior. Each chapter focuses on a different fable and a different topic 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W in ethology, including future planning, tool use, self-recognition, cooperation and deception. At the end of each chapter, the author pulls together the evidence to assess whether Aesop’s portrayal of the animals holds true from a modern, scientific perspective. MARKETING Pre-publication consumer review Through interviews with leading researchers in behavioral ecology,Aesop's campaign on NetGalley and Amazon Vine Animals brings these famous tales back to life. People are fascinated by animal Featured title on Bloomsbury.com at behavior, especially studies that suggest the presence of intelligence and other publication ‘human-like’ characteristics that reveal how we may share more with these Single-title eblast to in-house popular science subscribers creatures than we imagined. Social media campaign at publication Amazon A+ content Jo Wimpenny is a zoologist and writer, with a research background in animal behavior and the Targeted Facebook and Google history of science. She is a regular feature writer for BBC Wildlife. advertising campaigns Edelweiss banner and newsletter advertising Amazon sponsored product campaign Goodreads advertising Public librarian outreach Publicity campaign targeting print, online, and broadcast media
36 BLOOMSBURY SIGMA SEPTEMBER 2021
Fire and Ice The Volcanoes of the Solar System
Natalie Starkey
Follow geologist and cosmologist Natalie Starkey on a journey as she leads you on a tour of the Solar System’s tallest, coldest, hottest, and weirdest volcanoes.
Earth isn’t the only planet to have volcanoes. In fact, the Milky Way is littered with them. Fire and Ice explores the Solar System’s volcanoes and is an unusual look into how these cosmic features are made and whether they are the key to life on other planets. We tend to think of volcanoes as disgorging hot, molten lava and emitting billowing clouds of ash. Some planets follow this pattern like Mars, which has the largest volcano in the Solar System and our own Moon which had volcanoes SCIENCE / SPACE SCIENCE on its surface billions of years ago. But it isn’t the same across the rest of the Bloomsbury Sigma | 9/28/2021 Solar System. Pluto, for example, erupts methane, ammonia, water, and carbon 9781472960368 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. dioxide, which freeze to form mountain chains made of ice rather than rock. The Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W volcanoes in the Milky Way can be some of the hottest and coldest places on its moons and planets. Whether they are formed of fire or ice, volcanoes are of huge importance for scientists trying to picture the inner workings of a planet or moon. Volcanoes MARKETING dredge up materials from the depths and deliver them to the surface. The way in National print and online review campaign Target science publications which they erupt and the products they generate can help scientists ponder Online media bigger questions of the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System. National broadcast targets From the red-hot summits of Jupiter’s moon Io, to the coldest, icy carapace of Pluto, Natalie Starkey leads us on an incredible expedition through the cosmos to explore volcanoes and what they might mean for the future of our universe.
Natalie Starkey is a geologist and cosmologist. During her doctorate at Edinburgh University, studying the geochemistry of Arctic volcanoes, Natalie traveled to the volcanic fields of Iceland, the ancient volcanoes of Scotland and to the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean. Her first popular science book is Catching Stardust (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018). She received a British Science Association Media Fellowship in 2013, and is a science host with Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular StarTalk Radio.
37 GREEN TREE NOVEMBER 2021
The Breathing Revolution Train yourself to breathe properly to banish anxiety and find your inner calm
Yolanda Barker
Breathing is at the core of everything we do. Breath is life.
In The Breathing Revolution, Yolanda Barker has developed a seven-day breathing program to teach us how to breathe anew and to experience the benefits of harnessing our breath. With accompanying audio meditations, this is the must-read book for anyone looking to banish anxiety and find inner calm. We breathe over 20,000 times a day. But most of us don’t breathe properly. Years of stress and anxiety mean we breathe through our chest, forgetting to use our diaphragm and stomach. We shallow breathe, we hold our breath, and it BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / affects everything we do. Learn to breathe correctly and you will lower your MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION blood pressure, lose weight, and sleep better. Green Tree | 11/16/2021 Take a deep breath—and learn how to breathe again. 9781472948595 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 160 pages 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W Yolanda Barker is a writer and award-winning film director who has directed documentaries, Line drawings/illustrations and diagrams fiction, and animation. During her 13 years in the film industry, Yolanda has edited for TV, directed throughout award-winning documentaries, and is now directing live-action and animation fiction. She is also an experienced yoga teacher who trained in India. Her first health and wellness book, The Breathing Revolution, will publish in 2020. Yolanda’s work is thought-provoking, grounded, and open-minded.
MARKETING Digital assets on ISSUU Outreach to physical therapists/fitness instructor associations/corporate gyms Media campaign to women’s interest media and sport, fitness, and yoga magazines Social media campaign Display advertising campaign through Google and Facebook Eblast to sports & fitness subscribers National print and online review/feature Popular culture & lifestyle websites
38 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING DECEMBER 2021
Orphans of the Storm
Celia Imrie
From internationally bestselling author and celebrated actress Celia Imrie: the story of a mother’s epic quest to find her children, set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.
Nice, 1912. The very worst thing imaginable has come true for Marcela: following their separation, her cruel, controlling husband Michael has disappeared with their two young sons. Lolo and Monmon don’t understand where their daddy is taking them. First it was London; now they’re boarding a massive ship and heading out to sea. Marcela will do everything in her power to find her boys; but when an era-defining disaster strikes, it seems impossible that they will ever be reunited. Orphans of the Storm dives into the waters of the past to unearth a sweeping, FICTION / HISTORICAL epic tale of the sinking of the Titanic that radiates with humanity and hums with Bloomsbury Publishing | 12/14/2021 9781635577884 | $27.00 / $36.50 Can. life. Hardcover with dust jacket | 416 pages 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Celia Imrie is an Olivier Award–winning and Screen Actors Guild–nominated actress. She is known for her film roles in The Best and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, Bridget Jones, Absolutely Fabulous, Year by the Sea, A Cure for Wellness, Finding Your Feet, and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Imrie is also the author of her autobiography, The MARKETING Happy Hoofer, and the Nice Trilogy—Not Quite Nice, Nice Work (If You Can Get It), and A Nice Targeted influencer mailing with finished Cup of Tea, and Sail Away. books Global Bloomsbury social media promotion Finished copy giveaways via Goodreads and social Bloomsbury consumer email marketing campaign Independent bookseller marketing Library marketing National media campaign including pitching for print, broadcast, and online interviews and features National review coverage and inclusion in roundups and gift guides
39 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING DECEMBER 2021
The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
Kate Saunders
From internationally bestselling author Kate Saunders, a delightful new cozy mystery that finds detective Laetitia Rodd entangled in the shocking world of the Victorian theater.
In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theater fire ten years before. His great friend and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs. Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theater, she cannot turn away the woman in need. She agrees to take the case. FICTION / MYSTERY & But what starts out as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS a body is discovered in the burnt husk of the old theater. Soon Mrs. Rodd finds Bloomsbury Publishing | 12/7/2021 9781408866924 | $26.00 / $34.99 Can. herself embroiled in family politics, rivalries that put the Capulets and Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages Montagues to shame, and betrayals on a Shakespearean scale. Mrs. Rodd will 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W need all her investigatory powers, not to mention her famous discretion, to solve the case before tragedy strikes once more. For readers of the Grantchester Mysteries, The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden MARKETING is the charming third mystery in Kate Saunders’s series about Laetitia Rodd, the Targeted influencer mailing with finished indomitable lady detective. books Global Bloomsbury social media promotion PRAISE Finished copy giveaways via Goodreads for Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar and social Bloomsbury consumer email marketing “Saunders’s exquisite prose and patient storytelling build a convincing Victorian campaign voice, while Mrs. Robb’s shrewd, energetic narration adds further appeal to the Independent bookseller marketing rich depiction of 19th-century landscapes and attitudes. Mainstream readers who Library marketing National media campaign including appreciate Victorian fiction will be rewarded.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review pitching for print, broadcast, and online “Totally beguiling read.” —Booklist, starred review interviews and features National review coverage and inclusion in roundups and gift guides Kate Saunders is an author and journalist who has worked for the London Times, the Sunday Times, and Cosmopolitan. She has written numerous books for adults and children, including Five Children on the Western Front, which won the Costa Children’s Book Award. The Secrets of Wishtide was the 2016 debut of the Laetitia Rodd Mystery series. Saunders lives in London.
40 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING DECEMBER 2021
Baking with Fortitude
Dee Rettali
A one-of-a-kind, handsomely designed four-color guide to artisan baking, featuring modern approaches to old-fashioned methods.
Some of Dee Rettali’s recipes require patience and care, others can be made instantly—but all are love letters to the craft of baking. Dee walks us through how to bake with the fruits, spices, and herbs we have around us, loading our bakes with natural flavor and sparing ourselves piles of sugar and artificial flavors. Then, sharing two exciting new techniques that form the essence of craft baking, Dee teaches readers how to bake with a starter and, second, to ferment the batter itself. There’s no extra effort involved—just time—as you watch the COOKING / METHODS / BAKING Bloomsbury Publishing | 12/7/2021 cake rise and develop a rich, deeply complex flavor and texture similar to 9781526626967 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. sourdough bread. Whether you eat them like traditional cakes or slice them up Hardcover with dust jacket | 224 pages and eat them like bread, these cakes will be delicious longer than any cake 9.7 in H | 6.9 in W you’ve ever made. Full color photography throughout Featuring cakes like Chocolate and Chili Sugar Olive Oil, Rhubarb and Lemon, Moroccan Honey with Cinnamon, and Walnut Butter Cake with Honey, these 90 recipes are sure to delight and surprise. Mouthwatering and unique, Baking with MARKETING Fortitude is every baker’s newest obsession. Targeted influencer mailing with finished books Global Bloomsbury social media Dee Rettali was at the forefront of the organic food movement, having founded Patisserie Organic promotion in 1998, and her belief in preserving traditional crafts, using time-honored techniques and sourcing Bloomsbury consumer email marketing simple, seasonal ingredients has informed the way she cooks and bakes ever since. She opened campaign Fortitude Bakehouse in London in 2018 and has amassed a loyal following. National media campaign including pitching for print, broadcast, and online interviews and features National review coverage and inclusion in roundups and gift guides
41 BLOOMSBURY CONTINUUM DECEMBER 2021
Whatever Happened to Tradition? How We Destroyed It and Why We Want It Back
Tim Stanley
This hard-hitting book from a rising star of political journalism explains why the West needs to embrace conservative traditions that have been left behind in a race toward “progress.”
In the turbulence of the 21st century, the Western world has disavowed many of its foundational values and traditions a roadblock to progress. This includes
POLITICAL SCIENCE / chivalry, gender roles, identity aesthetics and form, rural life and the life of the POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES / spirit. But if the turbulent moment in which we find ourselves is any indication, CONSERVATISM & LIBERALISM it is time for the West to learn from the preservation of the past. In this polemic, Bloomsbury Continuum | 12/14/2021 Daily Telegraph journalist Tim Stanley argues for the revival of things that our 9781472974129 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. culture deems reactionary and bad but are potentially moral and good. Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W The problem with conservatism, said Evelyn Waugh, is that it never turns the clock back. It attempts to preserve the status quo. But a lot of people are unhappy with the status quo — they are depressed, isolated and angry. In Stanley’s view, civilizations change too fast, too far and throw out the good with MARKETING the bad. This is a book about what we have lost in the West and how we can Online advertising campaign targeting conservative readers rediscover it. Amazon sponsored product After decades of Western secularism, church attendance is on the rise. People are National print and online reviews/features reviving old codes of chivalry and sexual ethics through feminist activism. We campaign targeting top news and are gradually rejecting plastic and eating ethically, which means buying direct politically conservative media National News Radio Campaign from local farmers. We are researching family histories and getting to know ourselves through the past. The discussion of these movements and why tradition should be seen as inherently valuable are the subject of this fascinating book.
Timothy Stanley is a writer, journalist, lecturer and broadcaster. Born in 1982, he earned a first in history at Trinity College, Cambridge and then entered academic life. He held lectureships at Sussex University and Royal Holloway. He then joined the Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer. He is a contributor to CNN, and writes for History Today, the Spectator and the Guardian. He has published six books.
42 BLOOMSBURY CONTINUUM NOVEMBER 2021
Leonard Cohen The Mystical Roots of Genius
Harry Freedman
A spellbinding and unorthodox look into the life of Leonard Cohen, and the way his experiences with religion and spirituality produced one of the greatest musicians of our time.
Leonard Cohen’s music is studded with allusions to Jewish and Christian tradition, as well as Kabbalah and Zen. In his 1994 classic “Hallelujah” he opens with the words “Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord, that David played, and it pleased the Lord . . . the baffled king composing Hallelujah.” As the song progresses, Cohen takes us on a tour of the Old Testament, he sings of Samson having his hair cut by Delilah, Moses asking God’s name, and we even meet the BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY blasphemer from the Book of Leviticus. / MUSIC This book is about the ethos, origins, and traditions in Cohen’s lyrics. He had Bloomsbury Continuum | 11/2/2021 9781472987273 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. grown up in an observant Jewish family. His father died when he was nine, his Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages mother suffered from depression, and he himself underwent prolonged dark 9.2 in H | 6 in W periods. His Irish Catholic nanny took him to church. He was as familiar with Christian traditions as he was with Jewish. But one of the notable features of his work is how he switches with ease from Judaism to Christianity. Kabbalah also MARKETING features in his imagery, and in 1990 he moved into a Zen monastery as a Amazon sponsored product permanent resident, apparently becoming a Buddhist monk. He died in 2016. Consumer reviews on NetGalley and Here is a book that looks deep into the soul and imagination of one of the Amazon Vine greatest singers and lyricists of our time. Here is the landscape of his soul. This Librarian galley mailing through B&T Advertising with Edelweiss, Ingram, and is not a biography but a biographical narrative into the treatment of each song or NetGalley theme, so that by the end the reader will in fact have a good understanding Featured title on bloomsbury.com Advertising on Google, YouTube, and Facebook Harry Freedman is a Jewish and Aramaic scholar who has a passion for the music and lyrics. He is AdBiblio campaign to Cohen fans and the author of The Talmud: A Biography and Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul. music lovers Outreach to record stores and fan clubs for social media giveaways Social media campaign at publication, including Spotify playlist and shareable graphics
43 BLOOMSBURY BUSINESS OCTOBER 2021
Essentials of Contemporary Marketing, The
Mo Willan
An essential guide to contemporary marketing that demonstrates, via case studies, the move towards marketing techniques that better reflect consumer needs.
As the effectiveness of traditional marketing techniques continues to diminish, contemporary marketing increasingly becomes the most reliable method of expanding outreach and reflecting the needs of the modern consumer. When BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / implemented, these contemporary strategies offer the greatest support for their MARKETING client base, with a product range that adapts to the desires of the target market. Bloomsbury Business | 10/5/2021 The channels used to underpin these strategies are also radically different from 9781472988577 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages traditional methods — placing emphasis upon platforms such as social media. 9.2 in H | 6 in W Designed for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as those in executive education and general business, The Essentials of Contemporary Marketing covers a wide range of themes, including: - Consumer behavior - The latest marketing research - Services marketing - Brand management - Global marketing - Ethics in marketing Each chapter includes case studies to illustrate and contextualize the topics covered, featuring companies as diverse as Amazon, McLaren, Unilever, UBS and Virgin Money. In alignment with its subject matter, The Essentials of Contemporary Marketing prioritizes practicality over theory-based content — providing a comprehensive and contextualized insight into how marketing is developing in the 21st century.
{delete}
44 BLOOMSBURY CARAVEL SEPTEMBER 2021
Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster
Celia Brayfield
The first book about a generation of women writers who challenged the world.
In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women’s writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women’s lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a LITERARY CRITICISM / succession of young women who wrote about their lives with honesty that SUBJECTS & THEMES / WOMEN dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality, and prejudice and in Bloomsbury Caravel | 9/21/2021 9781448217502 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should Trade Paperback | 272 pages be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached millions around the 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W world, paved the way for social changes and laid the foundations of 8pp B&W second-wave feminism. Other Available Formats: After Delaney came Edna O’Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Hardcover ISBN: 9781448217496 Dunn, Virginia Ironside, and Margaret Forster: an extraordinarily disparate group who were united in their determination to shake the traditional concepts of womanhood in novels, films, television, essays, and journalism. They were as angry as the Angry Young Men, but were more constructive and proposed new ways to live and love in the future. They did not intend to become a literary movement but they did, inspiring other writers to follow. Not since the Brontës have a group of young women been so determined to tell what it is like to be a girl. In this biographical study, the acclaimed author Celia Brayfield tells their story for the first time.
PRAISE “Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it’s Oprah’s Book Club–worthy.” —Vice “Smoothly and elegantly written and as readable as any novel. Six writers to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, all in their own ways sowing the seeds of how we live today. Marvellously interesting!” —Fay Weldon
Celia Brayfield is an author whose novels range from modern social fiction to international bestsellers. Her subjects are mostly women, working through change in themselves and the world. This is her fifth nonfiction book and her earlier work includes a study of celebrity culture, travel writing, and writing guides. She teaches Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her first career was as a journalist, working for the Times and the Evening Standard. She has one daughter and lives in Dorset.
45 BLOOMSBURY SIGMA SEPTEMBER 2021
Sway Unravelling Unconscious Bias
Pragya Agarwal
Dr. Pragya Agarwal unravels the way our implicit or “unintentional” biases affect the way we communicate and perceive the world, our decision-making, and how they reinforce systemic inequalities.
“A fascinating and vital read.” —Good Housekeeping Sway is a thoroughly researched and comprehensive look at unconscious bias and how it impacts day-to-day life, from job interviews to romantic relationships to saving for retirement. It covers a huge number of sensitive topics — sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, colorism — with tact, and combines statistics with stories to paint a fuller picture and enhance understanding. Throughout, Pragya SOCIAL SCIENCE / clearly delineates theories with a solid grounding in science, answering DISCRIMINATION Bloomsbury Sigma | 9/21/2021 questions such as: do our roots for prejudice lie in our evolutionary past? What 9781472971388 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. happens in our brains when we are biased? How has bias affected technology? If Trade Paperback | 448 pages we don’t know about it, are we really responsible for it? 7.8 in H | 5.1 in W At a time when partisan political ideologies are taking center stage, and we Other Available Formats: struggle to make sense of who we are and who we want to be, it is crucial that Hardcover ISBN: 9781472971357 we understand why we act the way we do. This book will enables us to open our eyes to our own biases in a scientific and non-judgmental way.
MARKETING PRAISE Review campaign to paperback columns nationwide “Agarwal’s diagnosis of the political harms of bias is passionate and urgent.” —Guardian, Book of the Week “Fascinating, sometimes challenging, read, for fans of Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women and Angela Saini’s Superior.” —BBC Science Focus, Best Science Books of April “A well-researched and cogent work. It accessibly reveals the insidious nature of stereotyping and does much to encourage readers to examine — and take responsibility for — their own implicit biases.” —Publishers Weekly “A serious exploration of the neuroscience and psychology of bias. Solid, definitely- not-dumbed-down popular science.” —Kirkus Reviews
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioral and data scientist, and a freelance journalist. As a Senior Academic in U.S. and UK Universities, she held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship, following a PhD from the University of Nottingham. She is a two-time TEDx speaker, winner of Diverse Wisdom award from Hay House, and was named as one of the 100 influential women in social enterprise in the UK, and one of 50 people creating change in the UK-India corridor on the High and Mighty list. @DrPragyaAgarwal
46 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Speak, Silence In Search of W. G. Sebald
Carole Angier
The first biography of W. G. Sebald: a robust, intricate, landmark portrait of one of the most significant and lauded cultural figures of the twentieth century.
W.G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction, history, autobiography and photography and addressed some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true / LITERARY FIGURES Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/5/2021 left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second- 9781526634795 | $32.00 / $43.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 656 pages generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of 9.2 in H | 6 in W the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical coldness, saving humour, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well MARKETING Social media promotion as work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait that pushes the Bloomsbury consumer email marketing boundaries of biography as its subject pushed the boundaries of fiction. campaign National print and online review campaign Carole Angier is the author of Jean Rhys: Life & Work, which won the Writer’s Guild Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She was educated at the universities of McGill, Oxford and Cambridge. She taught academic and life writing for many years and has edited several books of refugee writing. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
47 BLOOMSBURY SIGMA NOVEMBER 2021
Unfit for Purpose When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World
Adam Hart
Forged by natural selection and honed by evolution, humans are perfectly adapted machines . . . for a world that no longer exists.
“This book is a gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.” —The Mail on Sunday In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created. In each chapter, Adam reveals the many ways in which biological SCIENCE / LIFE SCIENCES / adaptations that evolved to help us survive and thrive now work against us. For BIOLOGY example, in the modern world stress is a killer but how did ‘fight or flight’ Bloomsbury Sigma | 11/16/2021 instincts turn from life-savers to life-takers? Obesity is a disease now but is it 9781472971005 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages also just a side-effect of our evolutionary past? Whether it’s the derailing of 7.8 in H | 5.1 in W microbes in our gut, the rise of gluten and lactose intolerance, problems of social media or drug addiction, we always seem to have one foot in the modern world Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781472970992 and the other firmly in our evolutionary past. Adam explores science, archaeology, medicine, genetics, sociology and more, to show how, in a modern world of our own making, we find ourselves ‘unfit for purpose’. But all is not lost! In unpicking the causes of our current woes, he unearths some secrets of evolutionarily informed treatments that will change the way we think about ourselves and our future.
PRAISE “Adam Hart’s thought-provoking, if pessimistic, book asks: how do our primate origins relate to existence in today’s technological jungle? The stress response that once saved us from predators is now killing us, as we pack into our lives microstressors ranging from unsuitable foods to social media — becoming worriers rather than warriors.” —Nature “Adam offers a splendidly novel perspective on what it is to live a modern-day life in a stone-age body. A tour-de-force of cutting-edge evolutionary science, which debunks, debates and delights in equal measure.” —Jules Howard, naturalist, science writer and author of Death on Earth
Adam Hart is an entomologist and Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire. He is a regular broadcaster for both Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. His previous popular science book was The Life of Poo (2015, Octopus Books).
48 BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING DECEMBER 2021
Creation Art from the Beginning
John-Paul Stonard
From distinguished critic and curator John-Paul Stonard, a dazzling, panoramic world history of art from ancient times to the present for the twenty-first century reader.
Creation is a history of art for the twenty-first century. It tells the extraordinary story of how people all over the globe, from prehistory to the present day, have created images in order to understand the world they inhabit. It explores the remarkable endurance of this creative impulse, and by tracing the diversity of artistic forms through the ages, offers a comprehensive and exhilarating introduction to world art. ART Distinguished critic and curator John-Paul Stonard has assembled a dazzling Bloomsbury Publishing | 12/7/2021 9781408879689 | $40.00 / $54.00 Can. array of paintings, sculptures, and artifacts to tell a story of vitality and renewal. Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages Fully illustrated, each chapter of Creation allows intimate access to key works of 9.7 in H | 7.4 in W art and the conversations surrounding them, from the earliest cave paintings of Illustrations integrated throughout the Paleolithic Era to the conceptual art of today. Stonard has written a captivating and searching look at the evolving legacies of the past and casts a cold eye on our own unstable vantage point. MARKETING Social media promotion John-Paul Stonard is a writer, art historian, and member of the consultative committee of the Bloomsbury consumer email marketing Burlington Magazine, where he was an editor from 2005 to 2010. He completed a PhD at the campaign National print and online review campaign Courtauld Institute of Art and has published widely on modern and contemporary art. His works include Germany Divided: Baselitz and His Generation and Fault Lines: Art in Germany 1945–1955. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Burlington Magazine, and Apollo.
49 PHILIP WILSON PUBLISHERS NOVEMBER 2021
Frans Hals The Male Portrait
Lelia Packer
The first book to concentrate on Frans Hals’s highly innovative approach to male portraiture.
Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt and Vermeer, is one of the most eminent Dutch seventeenth-century ART / COLLECTIONS, artists. Coinciding with the exhibition of the same name, Frans Hals: Male CATALOGS, EXHIBITIONS / Portraits explores the artist’s highly innovative approach to male portraiture in PERMANENT COLLECTIONS particular, from the beginning of his career in the 1610s until the end of his life Philip Wilson Publishers | 11/23/2021 in 1666. 9781781301104 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 128 pages Through pose and virtuosic painterly technique, Hals completely revolutionised 10 in H | 8.7 in W the male portrait into something entirely new and fresh, capturing and revealing 60 colour images his sitters’ characters like no one else before him. The book includes the first in-depth study of Hals’s great masterpiece, The Laughing Cavalier, from 1624. The extravagantly-dressed young man, confidently posed with his left arm akimbo in the extreme foreground of the picture and seemingly penetrating into the viewer’s space, has been charming audiences for over a century. Richly illustrated, this catalogue situates The Laughing Cavalier within the artist’s larger oeuvre and demonstrates how, at a relatively early point in his career, Hals was able to achieve his greatest masterpiece. Attractive and accessible the book will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.
Lelia Packer is Curator of Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and pre-1600 paintings at the Wallace Collection.
50 ADLARD COLES SEPTEMBER 2021
Pass Your Yachtmaster
David Fairhall, Mike Peyton and Peter Rodgers
Now in its sixth edition, this must-have guide for aspiring Yachtmasters covers the essentials of the RYA syllabus and provides new tips on exam tactics.
Since the first edition was published, Pass Your Yachtmaster has helped thousands of students through their shore-based and practical Yachtmaster course. Concise and comprehensive, this crammer covers all the essentials of the RYA syllabus, arranged in bite-size chunks to make revision easier and brought fully up to date in this sixth edition. Throughout, the theory is set in a practical seagoing perspective, and helpful hints on exam tactics are provided too. And to relieve the tension of all that SPORTS & RECREATION / WATER SPORTS / SAILING swotting, each section is enlivened with Mike Peyton’s best-loved cartoons. Adlard Coles | 9/7/2021 9781472981981 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. PRAISE Trade Paperback | 128 pages 8.3 in H | 5.8 in W “A wealth of information, simply laid out.” —Cruising Line drawings, cartoons, diagrams “It is a slim book, but the size belies the amount of information within its covers. It is a “cram course”— but it overlooks nothing, and is laid out to make studying or revising easier.” —Sailing MARKETING Inclusion in seasonal eblast to in-house David Fairhall has enjoyed sailing for more than half a century in everything from Dragons to nautical subscribers Outreach to cruising associations and Thames barges. He has raced offshore, including skippering a boat in the Fastnet Race, and made gams including Cruising Club of America, transatlantic ocean deliveries. He sails from Maldon on the East Coast, where he lives. Seven Seas Cruising Association, and Mike Peyton was the world’s best known nautical cartoonist. He wrote several books, illustrated Ocean Cruising Club many more, and produced thousands of cartoons for yachting magazines. Discount offers to yacht clubs Targeted campaign to nautical publications
51 BLOOMSBURY SPORT NOVEMBER 2021
Finish Strong Resistance Training for Endurance Athletes
Richard Boergers & Angelo Gingerelli
This training manual, written by two leading U.S. fitness authorities, outlines how endurance athletes can benefit from incorporating resistance training into their weekly schedule.
Finish Strong: Resistance Training for Endurance Athletes introduces the principles of resistance training to all kinds of endurance athletes, such as runners, cyclists, swimmers, and triathletes, in a way that will optimize their SPORTS & RECREATION / training and allow them to compete at a higher level. Most athletes realize that RUNNING & JOGGING strength training is a vital part of a comprehensive training program, but many Bloomsbury Sport | 11/30/2021 are unsure of where to start or how to integrate lifting weights into their already 9781472977434 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 240 pages packed training schedule. This book not only gives them a starting point, but 9.7 in H | 7.4 in W also a blueprint for how to structure training plans to maximize results and minimize injuries. The book breaks down the importance of resistance training and strength
MARKETING development, and gives practical advice and training tips. Runners, swimmers, ISSUU sampler available cyclists, and triathletes now number in the millions, but the resources available Consumer reviews on NetGalley to teach them how to integrate weight training into their programs are Featured title on Bloomsbury.com surprisingly limited. Finish Strong:Resistance Training for Endurance Athletes Social media campaign featuring shareable graphics fills that void. Eblast to in-house sports subscribers Influencer campaign including giveaway Richard Boergers is a certified athletic trainer (ATC) through the National Athletic Trainers’ copies Association (NATA) and earned a doctorate degree from Seton Hall University in health science Outreach to running clubs, cycling clubs, with a concentration in movement science. swimming clubs Angelo Gingerelli has worked in strength and conditioning for almost 20 years in the collegiate, Inclusion in 2022 New Year, New You promotion professional, and private setting. The majority of his time in the field has been spent at Seton Hall Targeted advertising campaign to followers University as a strength and conditioning coach and adjunct professor. of Runner’s World, UltraRunning, etc. Advertising in sports-related podcasts
52 BLOOMSBURY SPORT SEPTEMBER 2021
From A to B A Cartoon Guide to Getting Around by Bike
Dave Walker
More joyful cycling cartoons in the follow up book from Cycling Cartoonist Dave Walker—this time casting a wry eye over everyday cycling. SPORTS & RECREATION / CYCLING “Hilarious.” —Cycling Weekly Bloomsbury Sport | 9/7/2021 More joyful cycling cartoons from the renowned Cycling Cartoonist. With over 9781472976130 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 128 pages 100 full-page cartoons that cast an affectionate eye over cycle commuting to 7.9 in H | 7.9 in W leisure cycling and everything in between—funny, thoughtful, and powerful Cartoons throughout cartoons from bestseller Dave Walker, celebrating the simple pleasure of getting from A to B on two wheels.
MARKETING PRAISE Inclusion in cycling e-newsletter Email offer to cycling associations for The Cycling Cartoonist Digital sampler on ISSUU “Cartoonist and cyclist Dave Walker has put together this hilarious coffee-table Social media campaign featuring cartoons book full of cycling-related illustrations.” —Cycling Weekly Targeted advertising on Google National reviews/features campaign “I laughed out loud . . . There’s so much in this book that will appeal to any targeting print and online rider.” —www.ridevelo.cc National broadcast campaign “I would be very surprised if there wasn’t at least one page in this book with Op-eds/guest articles which any subculture of cyclist could not identify.” —thewashingmachinepost “With luck, Walker may be at the forefront of a renaissance of the art of cycling cartoons. I for one would be happy to see more exponents of the art showing off their talents if they are as good as this.” —Feargal McKay, www....
Dave Walker is a cartoonist. He has had cycling cartoons published by Cycling Weekly, CTC, and others. Dave has had a weekly cartoon in Church Times since 2005. @davewalker
53 ADLARD COLES OCTOBER 2021
Practical Skipper Essential notes and checklists for day and coastal skippers
Bill Johnson
A concise and practical guide that contains all your essential sailing knowledge whittled down and easy to find.
Containing all the author’s own briefing notes and concise explanations, this book covers every activity a skipper will need to carry out. Using bullet points, handy checklists, and simple diagrams, this book is a unique resource for all skippers—reassurance for new skippers that they haven’t forgotten something vital, and a reminder for the more experienced. These are the notes you wish you’d written when you attended your sailing course, and had to hand when revising for your exam or refreshing your knowledge later. SPORTS & RECREATION / WATER SPORTS / BOATING Adlard Coles | 10/5/2021 A Cambridge-educated engineer, Bill Johnson swapped his career for long distance sailing. He 9781472977076 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. stopped logging miles sailed somewhere around 50,000. A sailing instructor for 10 years, focusing Trade Paperback | 224 pages on the RYA courses from beginner to Yachtmaster level, Bill’s adept at explaining tricky subjects in 9.2 in H | 6.1 in W a clear and engaging way. Bill is the author of Reeds Crew Handbook and Manoeuvring, both Useful colour diagrams throughout published by Adlard Coles.
MARKETING Inclusion in seasonal eblast to in-house nautical subscribers Outreach to cruising associations and gams including Cruising Club of America, Seven Seas Cruising Association, and Ocean Cruising Club Discount offers to yacht clubs Targeted campaign to nautical publications
54 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Nautical Almanac 2022
Reeds Nautical Almanac 2022 is the indispensable annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen.
Reeds Nautical Almanac is the indispensable trusted annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen and motorboaters, and provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the whole of the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, Northern Morocco, the Azores and Madeira. The 2022 edition continues the Almanac’s tradition of year on year improvement and meticulous presentation of all the data required for safe navigation. Now with an improved layout for easier reference and with over 45,000 annual changes, it is regarded as the bible of almanacs for anyone going to sea. The 2022 edition is updated throughout, containing over 45,000 changes, and REFERENCE / ALMANACS includes: 700 harbor chartlets; tide tables and tidal streams; buoyage and lights; Reeds | 10/19/2021 9781472990457 | $70.00 / $95.00 Can. 7,500 waypoints; invaluable passage notes; distance tables; radio, weather and Trade Paperback | 1104 pages safety information; first aid section. Also: a free Marina Guide. 10.4 in H | 7.6 in W Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January Full colour harbour charts and diagrams throughout to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk
PRAISE “On every cruising boat you'll find one of these. Don't start your engines without it.” —Motor Boat and Yachting “The bible of Almanacs.” —Classic Boat “The big, bold, extravagantly comprehensive king of Almanacs.” —Yachting World “There are some things I would not go to sea without — Reeds is one of them.” —Sir Chay Blyth
{delete}
55 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Vol 13: Ship Stability, Powering and Resistance
Jonathan Ridley and Christopher Patterson
A fully revised and updated edition of the classic textbook introducing the concepts of ship stability, resistance and powering relevant to marine professionals.
This indispensable guide to ship stability covers essential topics such as flotation and buoyancy, small angle, large angle and longitudinal stability, water density effects, bilging, ship resistance, and advanced hydrostatics. Each chapter has a comprehensive list of aims and objectives at the start of the topic, followed by a checklist at the end of the topic for students to ensure that they have developed all the relevant skills before moving onto the next topic area. The book features over 170 worked examples with fully explained solutions, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / enabling students to work through the examples to build up their knowledge and MARINE & NAVAL develop the necessary key skills. The worked examples range in difficulty from Reeds | 10/5/2021 9781472969705 | $80.00 / $109.00 Can. very simple one-step solutions to SQA standard exam questions and above. The Trade Paperback | 844 pages reader is supplied with extracts from a typical data book for the ship which 9.2 in H | 6.1 in W replicates those found on actual ships, enabling the reader to develop and practice real-life skills. This edition has been fully updated in line with the recently changed rules and regulations around ship stability and the updated national exam syllabus. Updates include corrections and clarifications to worked examples, new text on damaged stability and probabilistic stability, extra content on hydrostatic forces and centers of pressure, and extra content on stability information for small craft.
Jonathan Ridley is Principal Lecturer of Operations at Warsash Maritime Academy, Southampton Solent University, UK. Christopher Patterson BSc is Senior Lecturer of Merchant Vessel Engineering and Teaching and Learning Fellow at Warsash Maritime Academy, Southampton Solent University, UK.
56 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2022
Kendall Carter
Reeds Astro Navigation Tables is the established annual resource of astro-navigation data for yachtsmen, giving all the information necessary to navigate by the sun, moon, stars, and planets.
Reeds Astro Navigation Tables is the established book of annual astro-navigation tables compiled specifically for the needs of yachtsmen. It contains all the information the oceangoing sailor needs (without the bulk) in order to navigate by the sun, moon, stars, and planets, using tables devised by practical ocean REFERENCE / ATLASES, navigators. This book, together with a sextant, will enable sailors to navigate GAZETTEERS & MAPS confidently and safely when out of the sight of land. Reeds | 10/19/2021 The book continues to feature the well-received additions of the past few years, 9781472988621 | $38.00 / $51.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 80 pages including forms to help determine True Altitude (for the sun, stars and planets), 11.7 in H | 8.3 in W Calculated Altitude (using the versine formula), and Azimuth (using the ABC Tables), as well as a pro forma for calculating Intercept. With 8 extra pages and an improved layout, there is plenty of space for making notes and calculations.
PRAISE “Nothing I have seen comes near to the sensible format which I see before me.” —Tom Cunliffe, RYA Yachtmaster Examiner, author and sailor “Slim, modestly priced volume with clear, easily retrievable information.” —Cruising “You and your sextant could be lost without it.” —Yachting Monthly “I confidently recommend this system to my friends. It’s much easier to work with than the others I’ve used.” —Bill Bailey, winner RIN/Little Ship Club Yachtmaster Ocean Award
Kendall Carter was the pilot for HMS Ark Royal between 1991 and 1994, and also ran the Royal Navy’s Navigation School. He was later harbor master for Portsmouth Harbour, and is now based in Australia, where he acts as a consultant for the Port Authority of New South Wales (Sydney). He is a fellow of the Nautical Institute.
57 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Channel Almanac 2022
The Reeds Channel Almanac offers essential navigation and pilotage information covering the south coast of England, the Channel Islands, and northern France.
The Reeds Channel Almanac covers the south coast of England from the Scilly Isles to Dover, the Channel Islands, and northern France from Calais to L’Aberildut, offering cruising and racing yachtsmen ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Completely updated for 2022, topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information, communications, Mayday, and distress procedures—in fact everything the cruising yachtsman needs to know. The large type size and clear REFERENCE / ALMANACS layout makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. This handy Reeds | 10/19/2021 volume is ideal for anyone cruising the length of the English Channel. 9781472990532 | $52.00 / $70.50 Can. Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Trade Paperback | 320 pages Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January 10.4 in H | 7.6 in W Full colour harbour charts and diagrams to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk throughout PRAISE “There are some things I would not go to sea without—Reeds is one of them.” Sir Chay Blyth
{delete}
58 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Eastern Almanac 2022
The Reeds Eastern Almanac is designed specifically for anyone visiting the UK east coast and the Dutch and Belgian coastlines.
The Reeds Eastern Almanac covers the UK east coast from Ramsgate to Cape Wrath including the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and from Niewport to Delfzjil and Helgoland. It is the complete guide for North Sea mariners, offering ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Completely updated for 2022, topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information around UK and European waters, communications, Mayday and REFERENCE / ALMANACS distress procedures. The large type and clear layout makes information easy to Reeds | 10/19/2021 read even in adverse conditions. This handy volume is ideal for anyone cruising 9781472990549 | $52.00 / $70.50 Can. the North Sea. Trade Paperback | 272 pages Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. 10.4 in H | 7.6 in W Full colour harbour charts throughout Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk
PRAISE "There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them." —Sir Chay Blyth
{delete}
59 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Western Almanac 2022
The Reeds Western Almanac is ideal for any boater lucky enough to cruise and race in the superb waters off the coast of Western Scotland or Ireland.
The Reeds Western Almanac covers the coastline from Cape Wrath to Padstow as well as the whole of Ireland, and is ideal for any boater lucky enough to cruise and race in the superb waters off the coast of Western Scotland, Ireland or Western England. It offers ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Completely updated for 2022, topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information, communications, Mayday and distress procedures. The large type REFERENCE / ALMANACS size and clear layout makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. Reeds | 10/19/2021 It is the complete guide for both Irish and Scottish mariners as well as those 9781472990556 | $52.00 / $70.50 Can. cruising the UK west coast. Trade Paperback | 272 pages Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. 6.5 in H | 7.6 in W Full colour harbour charts throughout Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk
PRAISE "There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them." —Sir Chay Blyth
{delete}
60 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Looseleaf Update Pack 2022
The Reeds Looseleaf Update Pack 2022 is a versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information. The unique looseleaf format lets the user tailor the Reeds Almanac to their needs.
The Reeds Looseleaf Update Pack provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, the Azores and Madeira. A versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information in a convenient looseleaf form, the Looseleaf Almanac is inserted into a durable REFERENCE / ALMANACS binder which stays open on the chart table and lets the user tailor the Almanac to Reeds | 10/19/2021 9781472990525 | $55.00 / $74.50 Can. their needs by complementing the contents supplied with whatever information Trade Paperback | 1104 pages they may want to add or take out. The Update Pack 2022 is for those who have 10.4 in H | 7.6 in W bought the Reeds Looseleaf Almanac in previous years and just want to update Full colour throughout their information rather than buy the binder again. Includes 700 harbour chartlets, Harbour facilities, Tide tables and streams, 7,500 waypoints, International codes and flags, Weather, Distance tables, Passage advice, Area planning charts, Rules of the road, Radio information, Communications, Safety, Documentation and customs. The 2022 edition is updated throughout, containing over 45,000 changes. Also includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk
PRAISE "There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them." —Sir Chay Blyth "The big, bold, extravagantly comprehensive king of Almanacs." —Yachting World "On every cruising boat you'll find one of these. Don't start your engines without it." —Motor Boat and Yachting "The bible of almanacs." —Classic Boat
{delete}
61 REEDS OCTOBER 2021
Reeds Looseleaf Almanac 2022 (inc binder)
The Reeds Looseleaf Almanac is a versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information. The unique looseleaf format, bound inside a durable binder which stays open on the chart table, l...
The Reeds Looseleaf Almanac provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands, and the entire
REFERENCE / ALMANACS European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, including Reeds | 10/19/2021 the Azores and Madeira. 9781472990518 | $75.00 / $102.00 Can. This is a versatile system that combines almanac and pilotage information in a Trade Paperback | 1104 pages convenient looseleaf form. The unique looseleaf format, bound inside a durable 10.4 in H | 7.6 in W Full colour throughout binder which stays open on the chart table, lets the user tailor the Almanac to their needs by complementing the contents supplied with whatever information they may want to add or take out. The looseleaf format makes information access quick and easy whilst allowing the navigator to refresh it with the annual update pack. Includes 700 harbour chartlets, Harbour facilities, Tide tables and streams, 7,500 waypoints, International codes and flags, Weather, Distance tables, Passage advice, Area planning charts, Rules of the road, Radio information, Communications, Safety, Mayday and distress procedures, and Documentation and Customs. The 2022 edition is updated throughout, containing over 45,000 changes, and includes a free Reeds Marina Guide. Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk
PRAISE "There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them." —Sir Chay Blyth "The big, bold, extravagantly comprehensive king of Almanacs." —Yachting World "On every cruising boat you'll find one of these. Don't start your engines without it." —Motor Boat and Yachting "The bible of almanacs." —Classic Boat
{delete}
62 HELM NOVEMBER 2021
Field Guide to the Birds of Bangladesh
Richard Grimmett, Paul Thompson, Tim Inskipp
Field Guide to the Birds of Bangladesh is indispensable to anybody interested in the wildlife of this beautiful country.
Bangladesh—an amazing country packed with rich birdlife that until recently has been very much off the beaten trail in terms of birding. Why is this? Part of the reason is there has never been a field guide to its ornithological riches—until now. Birders are increasingly turning to this relatively safe country. And what wonders await them. Written by two of the top birding authorities in the region, Richard Grimmett and Tim Inskipp, along with regional expert Paul Thompson, this book features concise identification text and accurate maps opposite a series of superb plates NATURE / ANIMALS / BIRDS illustrating all species and subspecies in the country. Helm | 11/16/2021 9781472937551 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. Richard Grimmett and Tim Inskipp are unquestionably among the top ornithologists working Trade Paperback | 320 pages with the avifauna of the Indian subcontinent. They’ve written many books for Helm on the region 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W and its birdlife, over the course of almost thirty years. Paul Thompson is a birder based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
63 HELM DECEMBER 2021
Feathers An Identification Guide to the Feathers of Western European Birds
Cloé Fraigneau
The most accurate guide to feathers of European birds ever published.
This book offers an innovative identification key, designed according to color in addition to feather structure and shape. Collection and conservation methods, locations of feathers on the bird, and identification and description of the feathers of more than 400 species are clearly explained and richly illustrated. SCIENCE / LIFE SCIENCES / The large format of this book allows feathers to be shown in as much detail as ZOOLOGY possible, allowing readers to get to grips with the subtleties of their Helm | 12/14/2021 identification. 9781472971722 | $75.00 / $102.00 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 400 pages 11.2 in H | 7.6 in W Cloé Fraigneau is an ornithologist who works for the Éducation et Recherche sur les Oiseaux et la Nature (Education and Research on Birds and Nature) association.
64 BLOOMSBURY WILDLIFE OCTOBER 2021
Ripples on the River Celebrating the Return of the Otter
Laurie Campbell and Anna Levin
A celebration of the return of the otter to the UK’s rivers and freshwater wetlands after a drastic decline in the twentieth century.
A generation ago, otter watching was restricted to remote coastal areas — otter populations had been decimated over the previous century by pesticide NATURE / ECOSYSTEMS & poisoning and habitat disturbance. But recent decades have seen the positive HABITATS / RIVERS effects of determined conservation efforts to clean up our waterways, and now Bloomsbury Wildlife | 10/19/2021 9781472989154 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can. otters are returning and spreading throughout their former habitats. Hardcover with dust jacket | 176 pages One of the UK’s leading natural history photographers, Laurie Campbell, was 10 in H | 8.3 in W delighted to discover otters on the Tweed, a river he has known all his life, and 200 colour photographs the discovery launched him on a quest to create a photographic account of the lives of freshwater otters. Two decades later, otter numbers have steadily increased, and new generations of otters in busier sites have become more confident around people, sometimes appearing in broad daylight. Laurie is dedicated to photographing wild creatures in their habitats and is acclaimed for his use of natural light and natural situations. His exquisite photographs reveal behavior and moments rarely captured by other nature photographers. In this beautiful photographic book, extended captions by Anna Levin recount Laurie’s observations as he photographs otters through the changing seasons. Together they weave a wealth of information about otter biology, ecology and behavior into the story the pictures tell, set in the context of the river system itself and the other wildlife that shares the otters’ habitat.
Laurie Campbell has dedicated 50 years to photographing natural history, and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. His photographs have been featured in Country Living, Observer Magazine, BBC Wildlife and in the monthly column “Outdoor Photography.” Anna Levin is an author and editor specializing in wildlife. Her most recent book, Incandescent: We Need to Talk About Light, addresses the impact of artificial light on human health and the natural world.
65 BLOOMSBURY WILDLIFE OCTOBER 2021
British and Irish Moths: Third Edition A Photographic Guide
Chris Manley
A stunning new edition of the bestselling photographic guide to the moths of the British Isles—now covering all species on the British list.
British Moths is the most comprehensive collection of photographs of British moths ever published. It covers both macro and micro species, and the images are all of living insects, taken in natural conditions. Concise text descriptions cover wingspan, status and distribution, flight period, habitat, and larval foodplants, while thumbnail maps provide a quick overview of geographical NATURE / ANIMALS / distributions. BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Bloomsbury Wildlife | 10/19/2021 This third edition has been significantly expanded so that it includes all species 9781472975201 | $62.00 / $84.00 Can. on the British list, approximately 2,500 in total, representing a magnificent Hardcover with dust jacket | 448 pages achievement by the author, Chris Manley. It also includes updates to the text, 9.2 in H | 6.1 in W improvements to the photographic selection, and extra identification hints. For the leaf-mining micros, photographs are included to demonstrate the all-important feeding signs that can often be a more reliable identification method than seeing the adult. This revised and now comprehensive edition is an essential part of the library of any moth or butterfly enthusiast.
Chris Manley is an author, sculptor, and moth specialist. Beyond his detailed knowledge of lepidopterans gained through years of study, Chris is an insect photographer of rare talent. In addition to the two previous editions of British Moths, he is also the author of Moths of Trigon.
66 BLOOMSBURY SPORT OCTOBER 2021
Anton Danyluk: 50 Steps to the Best Version of Yourself
Anton Danyluk
From bullied teenager to UN ambassador, Love Island and Instagram star Anton Danyluk shows people the simple steps needed to change their attitudes about health to feel better every day.
“I’d never ever take my T-shirt off on the beach, I was so overweight.” —Anton Danyluk Having battled with his weight and confidence in the past, Anton Danyluk wants to help others who are struggling with their fitness and encourage people to live healthy and active lifestyles. And having undergone his own fitness PSYCHOLOGY / MENTAL HEALTH Bloomsbury Sport | 10/5/2021 transformation, it shows if Anton can do it, so can others. 9781472987815 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. Post–Love Island Anton freely admits he only went on the show to boost Trade Paperback | 208 pages promote his fitness business—Anton toured across the UK and appeared on 9.7 in H | 7.4 in W many TV and media platforms to promote his health and fitness message. In 2019 he was announced as a UN ambassador which involves promoting health and well-being among young people around the globe. Open and honest, as well as inspiring, this part practical, part autobiographical, illustrated lifestyle book will empower, motivate, and encourage readers to be the best version of themselves. The book will reflect Anton’s innate passion for helping people overcome obstacles and get on the path to achieving their own dreams. In the age of the smartphone, being inspired to be active has never been more important.
Anton Danyluk is a young Scottish entrepreneur who shot to fame in 2019 as a finalist on the ITV smash hit show Love Island. Smart, likeable, and passionate about fitness, Anton is well remembered and well liked, and one of the standout stars of the series.
67 BLOOMSBURY SPORT OCTOBER 2021
Francis Benali: The Autobiography
Francis Benali
Francis Benali is a Southampton Football Club legend and a celebrated charity endurance athlete, and he’s ready to tell his story.
Francis “Franny” Benali played football for 20 years for Southampton FC in more than 300 games, almost his entire career. His utter dedication to the club caused him to be a hero to Saints fans around the world. Written with the acclaimed Daily Mail sportswriter Matt Barlow, this book details Benali’s humble beginnings and has countless tales involving players, managers, and matches detailing Benali’s illustrious football career. But his story SPORTS & RECREATION / is much more than that. The intense commitment he had as a player found a new FOOTBALL outlet in the world of endurance sport. Through Ironman triathlons and Bloomsbury Sport | 10/19/2021 marathons, he has raised more than £1 million for Cancer Research UK. 9781472986795 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. Benali’s story shows us what can be achieved through dedication and Hardcover with dust jacket | 240 pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W commitment on and off the pitch. Through football and charity, he has made a 8pp plate section positive difference in countless people’s lives. His is truly an inspirational story.
Francis Benali, MBE, is former professional footballer and coach who spent most of his playing career at Southampton FC. In recent years, Franny has been in the media spotlight for completing ultra-endurance challenges, all in aid Cancer Research UK. He was named in the New Years Honors list 2020, where he was awarded an MBE.
68 REEDS NOVEMBER 2021
Reeds Vol 2: Applied Mechanics for Marine Engineers
Paul Russell
An authoritative guide to the principles of applied mechanics within a marine setting.
This book covers the principal topics in applied mechanics for professional trainees studying Merchant Navy Marine Engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as the core syllabi in applied mechanics for undergraduates studying for BSc, BEng and MEng degrees in marine engineering, naval architecture and other marine technology related programmes. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect the recent changes to the Merchant Navy syllabus and current pathways to a sea-going engineering career, SCIENCE / MECHANICS specifically the increased emphasis that has been placed on colleges and Reeds | 11/30/2021 universities now responsible for the academic requirements for those studying 9781472988188 | $75.00 / $102.00 Can. Trade Paperback | 576 pages for a career in marine engineering. In particular this means the book has been 9.2 in H | 6.1 in W updated to include more information about the general principles and applications of the exercises in the practical world of marine engineering. Each chapter has fully worked examples interwoven into the text, with test examples set at the end of each chapter. Other revisions include examples reflecting modern machines and practice, current legislation and current syllabi.
{delete}
69 ADLARD COLES NOVEMBER 2021
Tales from the Tillerman A Life-long Love Affair with Britain's Waterways
Steve Haywood
A tribute to Britain’s rivers and countryside, Tales from the Tillerman recounts Steve’s escapades up and down the British country, and his life-long love of boats and the waterways.
“Haywood imprints his inimitable humour on his descriptions of the people and places he meets along the way.” —BBC magazine Steve Haywood has been cruising the inland waterways for fifty years, and has amassed a following of readers keen to hear about his travelling tales on Britain’s beautiful canals and rivers. His previously published books — Narrowboat Dreams, One Man and a Narrowboat, Too Narrow to Swing a Cat TRAVEL / EUROPE / GREAT and Narrowboat Nomads — have all been hugely enjoyed by those with a desire BRITAIN for a narrowboat narrative told in Steve’s witty, charming style. Adlard Coles | 11/2/2021 Tales from the Tillerman is both Steve’s tribute to Britain’s canals, rivers and 9781472977007 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages countryside and a celebration of Britishness in all its eccentric glory. Unlike his 9.2 in H | 6 in W previous titles, which have each focussed on one particular journey that he has taken, Tales from the Tillerman is casting the net wider and drawing from his full fifty years of experience, recounting the many hair-raising escapades he’s had and reflecting on how the country and the cruising landscape has changed in those fifty years. Anecdotes and light-hearted rants aplenty, mixed with some tall tales and a smattering of the nostalgic, in Tales from the Tillerman you’ll be thoroughly entertained as a middle-aged reflects on his long love affair with boats and waterways, contemplating their importance to his life and how they’ve changed it.
Steve Haywood is a writer, journalist and filmmaker. He’s author of four previous waterways books — and a Harper Collins Crime Club novel. Previously a producer on BBC’s Newsnight and Panorama, in 1999, he was awarded a Royal Television Society award for his contribution to specialist journalism. He’s been a devoted inland waterways narrowboater for fifty years and has written a monthly column for the magazine Canal Boat for more than ten years.
70 ADLARD COLES NOVEMBER 2021
Boatyard Book, The A boatowner's guide to yacht maintenance, repair and refitting
Simon Jollands
The practical, comprehensive reference manual that provides accessible advice for boat owners on annual maintenance, repairs, upgrades and refits of sailing yachts and motorboats.
Beginning with all the information owners will need to care for their boat, including how to budget and plan tasks to be done through the year, The SPORTS & RECREATION / Boatyard Book goes on to help them choose the best boatyard for their needs, WATER SPORTS / SAILING then provides essential how-to reference material and ideas for a comprehensive Adlard Coles | 11/2/2021 range of projects large and small to be carried out ashore. 9781472977106 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. There’s advice and tips from highly respected boatyard owners and managers, as Trade Paperback | 224 pages well as numerous case studies of repairs done by owners of boats ranging from 6 9.7 in H | 7.4 in W Colour photography and diagrams throughout to 20 meters in length, all fully illustrated with step-by-step photos and illustrations. Topics covered include: - laying up - hull and deck care MARKETING - masts and rigging Seasonal eblast to in-house nautical subscribers - sail care Outreach to cruising associations and - engines gams including Cruising Club of America, - electrics Seven Seas Cruising Association, and Ocean Cruising Club - maintenance of plumbing and gas systems Discount offers to yacht clubs - more complex projects, including re-wiring a boat, overhauling an engine, how Outreach to boating supply stores and to treat osmosis and how to go about a complete refit. distributors This is a book to be kept at the yard, or on the boat, and used time and time Targeted campaign to nautical publications again by those who are either happy to keep things ticking along with the minimum of effort or by those who want to get stuck into bigger projects.
Simon Jollands is a former TV producer. A lifelong sailing enthusiast, he has filmed many major sailing events as well as writing and directing several sea safety films for the RNLI. He is the co-founder of app developer The Other Hat, which specializes in producing nautical reference apps, and is author of Safe Skipper and Reeds Lights, Shapes and Buoyage Handbook, both published by Adlard Coles.
71 ADLARD COLES NOVEMBER 2021
101 Tips for Stress-Free Sailing
Duncan Wells
101 essential practical sailing tips for a stress-free, enjoyable time at sea, from expert sailing instructor Duncan Wells.
Here are the answers to all your boating questions and dilemmas. In this accessible, easy-to-absorb handbook, Duncan Wells shares his tried-and-tested techniques and advice on sail setting, mooring, anchoring, navigation, sailing in heavy weather, and more. Step-by-step photographs, diagrams, and clear instructions will guide you through each tip, and this book is perfect to dip in for help with a particular sailing problem. This new title in Duncan Wells’s popular Stress-Free miniseries will be a godsend to all boaters looking for tips, hints, and solutions to everyday boating problems, and perfectly complements Stress-Free SPORTS & RECREATION / Sailing and Stress-Free Navigation. WATER SPORTS / SAILING In this book, Duncan will tell you all about how to: Adlard Coles | 11/2/2021 9781472982001 | $18.00 / $24.50 Can. · Calculate the speed of the tide by eye Trade Paperback | 128 pages · Calibrate the anchor chain so you know how much you have let out 8.3 in H | 5.8 in W · Know your hull speed Colour photography and diagrams · Protect your topsides and gunwale · Reef early for an easy life · Pinch the wind MARKETING · Use the chart plotter to calculate when to tack Eblast to in-house nautical subscribers · Watch out for deviation on the main steering compass Outreach to cruising associations and · Mount VHF aerials vertically gams including Cruising Club of America, Seven Seas Cruising Association, and · Shorten a line Ocean Cruising Club · Pick up buoys from the cockpit Outreach to boating supply stores and · Learn to splice distributors Discount offers to yacht clubs · Fit the spare Targeted Facebook advertising · Look after your zips Targeted campaign to nautical publications And many, many more!
Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor and sailing school principal. He has written for many leading boating magazines in the UK and U.S. He is the author of the bestselling Stress-Free Sailing and Stress-Free Motorboating (both also published by Adlard Coles Nautical), which have helped countless sailors and motorboaters learn helpful boat handling and berthing techniques. He lives in Buckinghamshire.
72 ADLARD COLES NOVEMBER 2021
Complete Yachtmaster, The Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper 10th edition
Tom Cunliffe
Complete coverage of the theory and practice of sailing, navigation, weather, stability, and dealing with emergencies. Required reading for all skippers whether on board or in the classroom.
The Complete Yachtmaster has been a bestseller since first publication and has established itself as the standard reference for Yachtmaster students as well as TRANSPORTATION / skippers of all levels of experience. NAVIGATION In this fully revised and up-to-date 10th edition, Tom Cunliffe brings together all Adlard Coles | 11/30/2021 the essentials of modern cruising in one volume. He presents an analysis of a 9781472982988 | $40.00 / $54.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages good skipper, the theory and practice of sailing and sail trim, the art of 9.7 in H | 6.7 in W seamanship, accurate navigation including chart plotters and PCs, understanding Photographs and illustrations throughout meteorology, heavy weather preparation, understanding yacht stability and coping with emergencies. The Complete Yachtmaster builds knowledge as it builds sailing confidence, MARKETING guiding examination candidates as authoritatively and reassuringly through the Seasonal eblast to in-house nautical RYA syllabus as a sea pilot bringing a ship safely to harbour. Required reading subscribers for all skippers and budding skippers, both on board or in the classroom. Outreach to cruising associations and gams including Cruising Club of America, “A gem, distilled from decades of experience.” —Yachting Monthly Seven Seas Cruising Association, and “Cunliffe’s competence and authority radiate from the pages... thoroughly Ocean Cruising Club recommended.” —Little Ship Club Discount offers to yacht clubs “There are all too few authors who not only know their subject but can write Bundle promotion with other Tom Cunliffe titles well about it. Tom Cunliffe is one.” —Cruising Targeted campaign to nautical publications PRAISE “No other book explains every facet of sailing as comprehensively... any boat would be better equipped with this book aboard.” —Yachting Monthly “Excellent, a must for the library and winter reading.” —Compass Magazine “An ideal gift to give to the aspiring sailor to ensure the challenges ahead are properly understood.” —Nautical Magazine “Required reading for skippers whether on board or in the classroom.” —Yachting Life “Brings together all the essentials of modern cruising in one volume, and ensures that this time-tested book will continue to be the foundation for navigators, skippers and anyone undertaking coastal and offshore passages.” —All...
“There are all too few authors... who not only know about their subject but can write well about it. Tom Cunliffe is one,” according to Cruising magazine. Tom Cunliffe has years of experience cruising around Europe and from the Caribbean to Russia and Brazil to the Arctic. He is an RYA Yachtmaster examiner and a training consultant for Sailing USA — the governing body of yachting in the U.S. He is a regular columnist for Yachting Monthly and Yachting World, and SAIL.
73 BLOOMSBURY WILDLIFE NOVEMBER 2021
British Moths A Gateway Guide
James Lowen
A complete beginner’s guide to British moths.
British Moths: A Gateway Guide is a wonderful introduction to 350 species of the most common and eye-catching adult moths that you may encounter in the UK. Rather than being grouped in taxonomic order, species are organized by season, and similar-looking moths are placed alongside one another for ease of identification. Concise species accounts include information on key features, making it easy to distinguish between confusion species, seasonality, and when and where to see them; each account is also placed alongside photos that have been carefully chosen to aid identification with clearly marked top tips. From hawk moths to tigers and ermines to emeralds, this guide is the perfect NATURE / ANIMALS / companion for anyone wanting to learn more about these beautiful and BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Bloomsbury Wildlife | 11/2/2021 remarkable insects. 9781472987389 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. Spiral Bound | 224 pages James Lowen is an awardwinning travel writer focusing on nature-orientated travel, and a moth 8.5 in H | 5.5 in W fanatic. He deftly treads the line between expert and layman by bringing wildlife alive for the 500 colour photos nonspecialist. His books for Bloomsbury include RSPB Spotlight Hedgehogs and Badgers, and Birds of France. His big hit is 52 Wildlife Weekends (for Bradt), which won Travel Book of the Year in 2016. He is also one of Britain’s leading moth-ers, and is the author of Much Ado About Mothing.
74 BLOOMSBURY WILDLIFE NOVEMBER 2021
Abundance Nature in Recovery
Karen Lloyd
In this collection of literary essays, Karen Lloyd explores abundance and loss in the natural world with stories of restoration, renewal, and rewilding from conservationists around the world.
How should we restore nature and species, and why does it matter? What is lost when we choose not to engage in restoration and rewilding? And which parts of ourselves might we also lose if we choose not to help restore and renew the natural world before it’s too late? In this era of urgent ecological challenge, Karen Lloyd’s timely book reveals the places that people are coming together to bring species and habitats back from NATURE / ENVIRONMENTAL the edge of extinction. In contrast, elsewhere, many other species are being CONSERVATION & PROTECTION allowed to disappear forever. To understand why this is, Karen examines how Bloomsbury Wildlife | 11/2/2021 9781472989086 | $25.00 / $34.00 Can. humans have chosen to entangle themselves in nature and considers the ways we Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages perceive the natural world, contemplating why certain aspects of nature can hold 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W our attention when we use others merely as temporary distractions. Touching on many current themes, Lloyd explores attitudes towards meaningful conservation as she weaves her delightful narrative through a diverse range of MARKETING inspiring landscapes, including Romania’s Carpathian mountains, the Hungarian Online advertising targeting readers of Steppe, the rivers of Perthshire, the dune forests of the Netherlands, and the rice National Geographic and Nature paddies of Extremadura in southern Spain. Social media campaign ISSUU sampler Outreach to zoos, science museums, and Karen Lloyd is a writer of nonfiction and poetry. She has published two previous works of natural history museum stores nonfiction, both published by Saraband. Karen edited and published Curlew Calling: An Anthology Featured title on Bloomsbury.com of Nature Writing, Poetry and Images in Celebration of Curlew, to raise funds for various curlew Eblast to in-house wildlife subscribers conservation projects including the British Trust for Ornithology’s work. She is a contributor to the National print and online campaign Guardian, BBC Wildlife, and Countryfile magazines and the RGS among others. Broadcast interviews Guest articles
75 BLOOMSBURY SPORT NOVEMBER 2021
Vegan Athlete's Cookbook, The Protein-rich recipes to train, recover and perform
Anita Bean
Over 100 exciting, healthy, and tasty vegan recipes, all easy and inexpensive to make, and packed with all the balanced nutrients you need to train, recover, and perform.
Whether you already live a vegan lifestyle, embrace a meat-free day each week, or you simply want to try some amazing flavor combinations, The Vegan Athlete’s Cookbook will help you create fuss-free, healthy meals proving once and for all that vegan food can be super simple and incredibly tasty. Anita Bean’s latest book is bursting with over 100 exciting vegan recipes, which are easy and inexpensive to make, and packed with all the nutrients you need to COOKING / VEGAN train, recover, and perform. Bloomsbury Sport | 11/30/2021 9781472984296 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. If you are a vegan athlete the crucial issue is making sure to get enough protein Trade Paperback | 224 pages to allow recovery — anyone taking their fitness seriously needs a carefully 9.3 in H | 8.2 in W curated list of recipes to ensure that they get the protein they need. full colour recipe photos As well as delicious everyday recipes and cooking tips, the book also contains evidence-based advice on how to fuel your workouts and maximize your performance. It debunks vegan myths, demystifies sports nutrition, and will help MARKETING you gain the confidence to create delicious, nourishing meals that will support ISSUU sampler available your fitness goals. Consumer review campaign on NetGalley Featured title on Bloomsbury.com Social media campaign Anita Bean is a bestselling nutrition author, Registered Nutritionist and London Marathon and Ride Eblast to in-house sports subscribers London nutritionist. She is the author of, among other titles, The Runner’s Cookbook, The Influencer campaign including giveaway Vegetarian Athlete’s Cookbook, Vegetarian Meals in 30 Minutes, and The Complete Guide to Sports copies Nutrition 8th edition. She has sold over 100,000 books. Outreach to running clubs, cycling clubs, weightlifting clubs, etc Outreach to gyms and personal trainers Inclusion in 2021 NYC Marathon sponsorship promotion Target clients/readers who bought Anita Bean’s previous books
76 BLOOMSBURY YEARBOOKS NOVEMBER 2021
Writers on Writing The Writers’ & Artists’ Book of Quotations
”I hate writing, I love having written.” —Dorothy Parker
Writers on Writing brings together a plethora of phrases, quotable lines, quips and putdowns about the writing process. Arranged in themes that follow the stages from idea to final publication and beyond, this little book of quotations brings together words of wisdom and withering wit from famous and infamous writers across the ages about their own work and that of fellow writers. Themes on the publishing process include: getting started, first drafts, agents, editing, publication day, book tours; and on different genres, forms and writing styles, such as plot, character, dialogue. Other topics covered are: rivals, censorship, writer’s block, spelling, fame, money, plagiarism, and alcohol. The quotations HUMOR / FORM / ANECDOTES & QUOTATIONS are accompanied by their original source (where known), date and a short writer Bloomsbury Yearbooks | 11/23/2021 biographical note. 9781472986979 | $17.95 / $25.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 224 pages PRAISE 6.5 in H | 4.8 in W “A writer is a person who writes.” —John Braine “Our book is found to be a drug, no man needs it or heeds it. In the space of a year our publisher has disposed but of two copies.” —Charlotte Brontë “How rare, how precious is frivolity! How few writers can prostitute all their powers! They are always implying, ‘I am capable of higher things’.” —E.M. Forster
Devised, collated and edited by the Writers’ & Artists’ team of editors with reference to sources such as the OED for authentication of the quotations included and their sources.
77 ADLARD COLES DECEMBER 2021
Practical Guide to Celestial Navigation, The Step-by-step instructions for when you've lost the plot
Phil Somerville
The jargon-free guide to celestial navigation — know what to do step by step, understand why you’re doing it, and be confident that you can put it into practice when on board.
TRANSPORTATION / NAVIGATION Did you know that a person standing on the equator is effectively travelling at Adlard Coles | 12/14/2021 900 mph? And did you know that you can use this information to work out 9781472987587 | $40.00 / $54.50 Can. where you are in the world, to an accuracy of about 3/4 miles? No GPS, no Hardcover with dust jacket | 160 pages computers. Just a sextant, some tables from an Almanac and the knowledge in 11 in H | 8.5 in W Full colour diagrams and illustrations throughout this book. It’s the only back up if the GPS goes down, and it’s a matter of safety. So if you want to qualify as a commercial skipper/superyacht captain you need to know how to carry out celestial navigation. And if you want to pass the RYA Ocean MARKETING Yachtmaster exam, you need to know it too. This book fulfills the need for a Single-title eblast to in-house nautical subscribers jargon-free explanation of celestial navigation, illustrated with color diagrams Targeted Google advertising campaigns and including unique checklist sheets to enable you to repeat all those Outreach to cruising associations and calculations you learned at home, when you’re on deck. gams including Cruising Club of America, Somerville breaks down what you need to do, step by step, explaining why at Seven Seas Cruising Association, and Ocean Cruising Club every point — giving the information context, and making it interesting and Discount offers to yacht clubs memorable. He has trained students in this subject for years, and here he’s able Targeted campaign to nautical publications to use his experiences to know what works and what doesn’t — he even includes a ‘What went wrong?’ chapter, going through errors commonly made. Readers will finish the book not only knowing what to do, but really understanding why. The author also includes time-tested ‘proformas’ — quick reference sheets that sailors can refer to when they come to putting the theory into practice ...
Phil Somerville has been teaching Celestial Navigation for six years, to RYA Ocean Candidates and superyacht captains in the UK, Spain, Italy and France (at the major training college Bluewater Yachting). Teaching in the winter months, in the summer he has worked for Skip Novak in Patagonia aboard Pelagic Australis (a 23 metre expedition vessel designed for high latitude sailing).
78 HELM DECEMBER 2021
Where to Watch Birds in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 5th Edition
Keith Betton
A revised and expanded guide for Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; all significant birdwatching areas in the region are covered, to make the most of any birding trip.
Where to Watch birds in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight is the essential site guide for any birdwatcher visiting or resident in this bird-rich sweep of southern England. All significant birdwatching areas in the region are analyzed, providing all the information necessary to make the most of each and every trip, whatever the NATURE / ANIMALS / BIRDS time of year. Helm | 12/21/2021 This new fifth edition by Keith Betton features fully updated and revised text, 9781472985408 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. incorporating some new sites and with revised mapping throughout. Trade Paperback | 384 pages 8.5 in H | 5.3 in W Whether you’re seeking Firecrests or Hawfinch in the New Forest, Osprey in Dorset or eagles on the Isle of Wight, this book tells you where to go, what you’ll see, and when to see it.
Keith Betton is involved in bird monitoring in Hampshire, where he is County Recorder and Chairman of the Hampshire Ornithological Society. He has been a Council Member of both the RSPB and the BTO and is currently Vice President of the latter. Keith is also a trustee of the Cameron Bespolka Trust and acts as an advisor to Birds on the Brink and BirdLife International. He is a past Chairman of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East and the African Bird Club.
79 BLOOMSBURY SPORT DECEMBER 2021
Panini Football Stickers The Official Celebration
Panini with Greg Lansdowne
A landmark illustrated book celebrating the world’s most famous football sticker albums. This is the first time Panini has ever collaborated on a book of this kind.
The Panini brand is synonymous with football trading stickers, and phrases like “swapsies,” “shinies” and “Got. Got. Need.” create fond nostalgic memories for anyone who has attempted to fill an album. Now, for the first time, Panini will collaborate on a full-color illustrated book to celebrate its iconic football sticker albums and collections. Richly illustrated and a heady mix of brand celebration and joyous nostalgia, the SPORTS & RECREATION / FOOTBALL book will be written and curated in a collaboration between Panini and Greg Bloomsbury Sport | 12/14/2021 Lansdowne, the UK’s leading authority on Panini sticker albums, and showcase 9781472987778 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. the best elements of every UK-published Panini album. Hardcover with dust jacket | 240 pages Featuring mass of visual material that football fans and nostalgics will 9.1 in H | 7.4 in W love—including the album cover and sticker packet designs, famous players, unique haircuts, and stickers of interest—the book will also lovingly explore on football sticker culture. And it will tell the story behind the stickers and feature interviews with players who have appeared in the albums, and celebrities who collected them.
Panini was founded in 1961 with the launch of its first Calciatori/Football Players collection. It now has subsidiaries in Europe Latin America and the United States. In the run-up to a World Cup Panini produces more than 40 million albums selling them to 160 territories. Panini now holds the exclusive rights to the English Premier League. Greg Lansdowne is the UK’s leading authority on Panini sticker albums and the author of Stuck on You: The Rise & Fall & Rise Panini Stickers.
80 BLOOMSBURY SPORT DECEMBER 2021
Don Revie: The Definitive Biography
Christopher Evans
The definitive story of Don Revie, a player and manager who singlehandedly changed the face of English football but left behind a legacy shrouded in allegations of corruption and dishonesty
Don Revie was one of the most complex and controversial men ever to grace the game of football. As a player he was crowned footballer of the year and credited with creating the modern center forward. As a manager, he took a Leeds United team languishing in the lower half of the second division and turned them, not only into league champions, but one of the most dominant teams in the country. SPORTS & RECREATION / In 1974, as Sir Alf Ramsay ran out of time as England manager, it was to Revie FOOTBALL that the Football Association turned. Bloomsbury Sport | 12/21/2021 With England, Revie lost the magic touch he had at Leeds and became 9781472973368 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages increasingly indecisive. After negotiating a big money contract with United Arab 9.2 in H | 6 in W Emirates, Revie became the first man to walk out on the England job. Then came the backlash: Revie’s reputation was destroyed. He was shunned by the football establishment. When he died just 12 years after walking out on England, the FA did not even send a representative to his funeral. His death robbed him of the opportunity to rebuild his reputation as one of the most important figures ever seen in English football. Based on exclusive interviews, this is the first biography to examine in depth the secrets of Don Revie’s life. The book also reveal how today’s football owes so much to him, in order to redeem his reputation for the first time ever, so that he can finally take his rightful place among the greats of the game.
Christopher Evans is the Member of Parliament for Islwyn in South Wales. He has been published in Boxing Monthly and many other newspapers and publications, and appeared on national television as a political commentator. His first book, Fearless Freddie: The Life and Times of Freddie Mills, was short-listed for the Times Biography of the Year and the Sports Book Awards 2018.
81 ALMA CLASSICS DECEMBER 2021
The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Dino Buzzati
A wonderful story for children and an allegory for adults about the absurdity of war with an introduction and guide to the text by Lemony Snicket.
Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they face fierce opposition from the army of the Grand Duke of Sicily. After many battles, scrapes and dangers, the bears’ reign is established over the land, but their victory comes at a price.
PRAISE JUVENILE FICTION / ANIMALS / “Out of Italy, which gave the world Pinocchio, has come a new and fine children’s BEARS story, the kind that grown-ups borrow from kids.” —Time Alma Classics | 12/14/2021 9781847498236 | $11.00 / $15.00 Can. “The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily is one of the noblest books I know.” Trade Paperback | 192 pages —Lemony Snicket 8.3 in H | 5.9 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.8 lb Wt Illustrations by the author in full colour “Tongue-in-cheek humour enhanced by Buzzati’s surreal illustrations will delight young readers with a taste for the bizarre.” —The School Librarian “This moving story… is one that children of nine-plus will remember enjoying long after they have finished reading. A bonus is a quirky readers’ companion.” —Newbury Weekly News “A beautifully presented book adorned with superb illustrations.” —Parents in Touch
The novelist, journalist and painter Dino Buzzati is one of the most important voices of twentieth- century Italian literature. He is best remembered today for his novel The Tartar Steppe and the story The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, which he illustrated himself and has become a classic of Italian children’s literature.
82 OSPREY GAMES SEPTEMBER 2021
Stargrave: Quarantine 37
Joseph A. McCullough
The first supplement for Stargrave, the science-fiction wargame from award-winning designer Joseph A. McCullough, introducing new scenarios, soldiers, technology, and aliens to the ravaged galaxy...
At the time of its commission, Imperial Research Station 37 held nearly ten thousand scientists and researchers working on a vast array of biological and chemical projects. Then, six months before the outbreak of the war, Station 37 FICTION / ACTION & went dark. There were no distress messages; no escape pods were launched. ADVENTURE Only a solitary, repeating broadcast filled the silence. “This station is under Osprey Games | 9/14/2021 quarantine. Do not approach.” When the Endwar came, the station was 9781472843692 | $26.00 / $34.99 Can. forgotten, left to drift lifelessly in its empty system. Now, with the war over, and Trade Paperback | 96 pages 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W the Free Traders roaming the ruins, the station has been rediscovered. Although the station must clearly be approached with caution, the technology it contains is worth many fortunes . . . Quarantine 37 is a supplement for Stargrave, in which the players lead their MARKETING team of Free Traders into an abandoned space station, looking for lost Reviews on top gaming sites Reviews in gaming press technology as well as potentially unique research and experiments. Unfortunately, a few of those “experiments” have escaped and still roam the tight, dark confines of the station. Along with a host of new scenarios, this book also contains new technology, soldiers, aliens, and ship options for the players to upgrade their forces.
PRAISE Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several nonfiction books, including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of Frostgrave and Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago, and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game.
83 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Last Viking, The The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
Don Hollway
A rich and compelling account of the life of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest Viking warriors to have ever lived.
The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a muddy field of rural England. HISTORY / MILITARY / King Harald III (called Hardrada, or “Hard Ruler”) of Norway was a real-life MEDIEVAL fantasy hero who burst into history as a teenaged youth in a Viking battle, from Osprey Publishing | 9/7/2021 9781472846525 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. which he escaped with just his life and a thirst for vengeance. Journey with him Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages across the medieval world, from the frozen barrens of the North to the glittering 9.2 in H | 6 in W towers of Byzantium and the passions of the Holy Land. He’ll fight for and 8pp plate section in colour against Christian, Muslim, and pagan rulers. He’ll bed handmaids, a princess, and an empress alike, writing poetry and amassing a fortune along the way, before returning home to claim his love, his crown, and his destiny, ultimately MARKETING dying like a Viking: in battle, laughing, with sword in hand. Promoted in Osprey eblasts, direct mail, The Last Viking is a fast-moving narrative that reads like a novel, combining blogs, and social networking sites Online ads targeted at ancient history and Norse sagas, Byzantine accounts, and even King Harald’s own verse and prose Viking enthusiasts into a single, compelling story. While pointing out contradictions in the ancient National publicity campaign stories for the sake of accuracy, Don Hollway brings the true tale of this hero to life.
PRAISE “Riveting! Open this book and be prepared to see it through to the end. Fascinating and thoroughly engaging!” —Edward Zapletal, History Magazine “The story pulls you in, and doesn't let go.” —Stephen Harding, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Battle “This is a lively and fun retelling of the story of Harald Hardrada, the famous Norwegian king. There is, without doubt, no greater symbol of an 11th-century warrior-adventurer.” —Professor Kelly DeVries
Don Hollway is an author, illustrator, and historian. He is also a classical rapier fencer and historical re-enactor. His writing on aviation, history, and re-enacting have appeared in magazines ranging from Aviation History, History Magazine, Military Heritage, Military History, Wild West, and World War II to Muzzleloader, Renaissance Magazine, and Scientific American. His work is also available at www.donhollway.com.
84 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
MacArthur’s Air Force American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51
Bill Yenne
General Douglas MacArthur ended World War II controlling one of the most powerful air forces in the world. This fascinating history, now in paperback, traces its development from the Philippines ...
General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second-largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth, and Seventh) under his command Osprey Publishing | 9/7/2021 possessed 4,004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft, and 922 transports. 9781472833242 | $21.00 / $28.50 Can. After being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, MacArthur and Trade Paperback | 320 pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W his air chief General George Kenney rebuilt the U.S. aerial presence in the 16pp plate section in b&w Pacific, helping Allied naval and ground forces to push back the Japanese Air Force, retake the Philippines, and carry the war north towards the Home Islands. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781472833235 Following the end of World War II, MacArthur was the highest military and political authority in Japan and at the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 he was named Commander in Chief, United Nations Command. In the ten MARKETING months of his command, his Far East Air Forces increased dramatically and saw Promoted in Osprey eblasts, direct mail, the first aerial combat between jet fighters. blogs, and social networking sites Written by award-winning aviation historian Bill Yenne, this engrossing and Amazon A+ content widely acclaimed title, now available in paperback, traces the journey of Email promotion to Bloomsbury Academic’s history subscribers in a bundle American air forces in the Pacific under General MacArthur’s command, from with Mutiny on the Spanish Main, The their lowly beginnings to their eventual triumph over Imperial Japan, followed Reckoning, Blood, Metal and Dust, and I by their entry into the jet age in the skies over Korea. Will Run Wild Review campaign to paperback columns nationwide PRAISE “Bill Yenne has given readers another fact-filled, chronological book detailing the Pacific War with MacArthur’s Air Force . . . [This book] is for the reader who wants a broad history filled in with the fun details. Who else but Bill Yenne would quote messages back and forth of American air commanders trying to rein in air ace Richard Bong as he kept wanting to fly? The tongue-in-cheek admonishments of the generals to Bong to be careful in the air are worth the price of this book.” —Clint Johnson, author of Tin Cans & Greyhounds: The Destroyers That Won Two World Wars
Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen nonfiction books, as well as ten novels. His work has been selected for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List. He is the recipient of the Air Force Association’s Gill Robb Wilson Award for the “most outstanding contribution in the field of arts and letters [as an] author whose works have shaped how thousands of Americans understand and appreciate airpower.” He lives in California.
85 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
The Bronze Lie Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
Myke Cole
The story of the Spartans is one of the best known in history, but is the portrait of Spartan supremacy true? Renowned novelist Myke Cole goes to the original sources to set the record straight.
The Spartan hoplite enjoys unquestioned currency as history’s greatest fighting man. Raised from the age of seven in the agoge, a military academy legendary for its harshness, Spartan men were brought up to value loyalty to the polis (the city-state) above all else. The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans HISTORY / MILITARY / ANCIENT legends in their own time, famous for their brevity and their ability to endure Osprey Publishing | 9/7/2021 hardship, to control their emotions, and to never surrender—even when it meant 9781472843753 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. their certain deaths. Hardcover with dust jacket | 464 pages But was this reputation earned? Or was it simply the success of propaganda? 9.2 in H | 6 in W 32pp plate section in colour Examining the historical record, both literary and material, paints a very different picture of Spartan arms—a society dedicated to militarism not in service to Greek unity, but as a desperate measure to keep its massive population of helots (a near-slave underclass) in line, forcing them to perform the mundane MARKETING work of farming, cleaning, and building to permit the dandified Spartan citizens Review campaign on NetGalley Promoted in Osprey eblasts and social (spartiatai) the time they needed to focus on their military training. media Covering Sparta’s full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Sponsored product on amazon.com Spartan warrior supremacy against the historical record, delving into the Email promotion to Bloomsbury minutiae of Spartan warfare from arms and armor to tactics and strategy. With a Academic’s history subscribers Targeted Facebook and Google ads special focus on previously under-publicized Spartan reverses that have been left Print ads in Military History and MHQ largely unexamined, it looks at the major battles as well as re-examining major Promotional bookmarks available for Spartan “victories.” retailers and author events Print and online review campaign Military history media Myke Cole has had a colorful and varied career, with service in war and crisis response. He National news radio campaign currently works as a security and intelligence consultant in the private sector. He has published extensively in military history and security, and is also a popular fantasy and science fiction novelist with Ace/Roc, Tor, and Angry Robot. Myke also appeared on CBS’ TV show Hunted, where he joined a team of elite investigators pursuing fugitives across the southeastern United States. He lives in Brooklyn, ...
86 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Blitzkrieg The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France
A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing the military collapse of three modern industrialized armies....
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany launched the invasion of Poland, employing a new type of offensive warfare: blitzkrieg. Based on speed, maneuverability, and concentration of firepower, the strategy saw startling HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD success as the panzer divisions, supported by Stuka dive-bombers, spread terror WAR II and mayhem, reaching Warsaw in just one week; the campaign was over by Osprey Publishing | 9/7/2021 early October. This was followed by Operation Weserübung, the invasion of 9781472847874 | $40.00 / $54.50 Can. Denmark and then Norway in 1940, the first joint air-sea-land campaign in the Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W history of warfare. Full colour throughout Even more striking an achievement was the swift and conclusive defeat of France in 1940. Refusing to let its forces dash themselves against the fortifications of the Maginot Line, Germany instead sent its divisions through neutral Belgium and northern France, destroying Allied resistance and pursuing MARKETING the remnant of the British and French forces to Dunkirk in an audacious and ISSUU sampler on bloomsbury.com Consumer review campaign devastatingly effective assault. Promoted in Osprey eblasts and social Though the dominance of the blitzkrieg method was to be challenged in the media latter part of the war as Allied forces found methods of disrupting the attacks Email promotion to Bloomsbury Academic’s history subscribers and dominating the battlefields, its unparalleled success in the early years of the Print ads in Military History and MHQ conflict brought Europe to its knees. Targeted Facebook and Google ads Illustrated throughout with detailed maps and contemporary photographs, Military Book Clubs: Challenge Naval Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France tells the story of these Book Club, Military Book Club, History Book Club first breakneck attacks, analyzing the technology, planning, and execution... Advertising with MH podcasts Print and online review and feature targets Dr. Russell A. Hart is professor of history and director of the Diplomacy and Military Studies WWII outlets Program at Hawai’i Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawai’i. He is the author of Clash of Arms (2001) and Guderian: Panzer Pioneer or Mythmaker? (2006). He lives in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. Dr. Stephen A. Hart is senior lecturer in the War Studies Department, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is the author of Montgomery and the ‘Colossal Cracks’: The 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe 1944–45 (Praeger...
87 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
The Battle for Guadalcanal Hell in the Pacific
Georgia Ball
A graphic novel in vivid color detailing the fierce struggle for control of the Solomon Islands, a pivotal point in the Allied campaign against Japan during World War II.
A New World power facing off against an ancient empire. A desperate struggle to control a Pacific archipelago. A high-stakes campaign that would tip the balance in a fiercely contested theater of war. On August 7, 1942, Guadalcanal was invaded, signaling the beginning of a campaign which would last over six months. The American troops who stormed the Solomon Islands forced the Imperial Japanese Navy to abandon Guadalcanal COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / in a victory that marked the first step towards Japan’s eventual defeat. This HISTORICAL FICTION colorful graphic novel follows the stories of the troops on the ground, bringing Osprey Publishing | 11/9/2021 the campaign vividly to life through the eyes of the soldiers, sailors, and pilots 9781472838735 | $26.00 / $34.99 Can. who fought on both sides. Combining an authentic historical narrative with Trade Paperback | 328 pages 10.2 in H | 6.6 in W striking visuals and expert storytelling, The Battle for Guadalcanal reveals a campaign that changed the course of the War in the Pacific.
Georgia Ball is a writer and developer living in the Pacific Northwest. She launched her first MARKETING webcomic, “Scooter and Ferret,” in 2004. Since 2010, Georgia has written licensed titles, including Online ads targeted at military history Transformers, Disney Princesses, and the horror-filled Evil Dead 2. enthusiasts, as well as players of video games Esteve Polls started working in comics in 1965 at 15 with a soccer-themed title for a Scottish Promoted in Osprey eblasts, direct mail, publisher, and never stopped working. In recent years, his work has included El Zorro and The Lone blogs, and social networking sites Ranger for Dynamic Forces. Launch publicity campaign in comics and pop culture media and trade publications Targeted review campaign to military publications Possible excerpt in military history magazine Review campaign to major general interest newspapers and magazines Review and feature campaign to military podcasts, blogs, and websites
88 OSPREY GAMES SEPTEMBER 2021
Undaunted: Reinforcements Expansion to the Board Game Geek Award-Winning WWII Deckbuilding Game
David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin
A modular expansion for Undaunted: Normandy and Undaunted: North Africa that takes the Undaunted series to an unprecedented scale.
In North Africa, the Long Range Desert Group are a thorn in the sides of the Italian forces, disrupting vital lines of communication and striking at strategic targets ranging far and wide. In Normandy, U.S. forces brace against German
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / BOARD counterattack, determined to maintain their foothold in the region. The fighting GAMES is intense and the outcome hangs on a knife-edge. With everything at stake, you Osprey Games | 9/14/2021 desperately need reinforcements! 9781472847300 | $40.00 / $54.50 Can. Undaunted: Reinforcements is a modular expansion that introduces a range of Game new rules, scenarios, and units. Unleash the might of the German and American 10.8 in H | 7.5 in W tanks and see how your new squad options fare against them in Undaunted: Normandy, or make use of mines, assault aircraft, and other new units as you attempt to outfox your opponent in Undaunted: North Africa. Whether you have MARKETING only one of the other, you’ll be able to play Undaunted for the first time in a How-to-play videos on Osprey Games’ four-player mode, or test your mettle in a solo mode by Dávid Turczi. YouTube channel Amazon A+ content Requires a copy of Undaunted: Normandy or Undaunted: North Africa to play. Social media campaign Ages: 14+ Launch at top gaming events such as Players: 1/2/4 GenCon Playing Time: 45–60 minutes Demo copy program with major distributors such as ACD and Alliance Contents: 100+ cards, 25+ tokens, 3 campaign booklets Giveaway offer in trade consumer newsletter {delete} Reviews on top gaming sites such Dice Tower, Geek & Sundry, There Will be Games, Board Game Geek, etc. Reviews in gaming press such as GTM, Meeple Monthly, Tabletop Gaming Magazine, etc.
89 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Panzergrenadier
Thomas Anderson
Using firsthand accounts and many previously unpublished images, this highly illustrated new book provides a detailed analysis of Germany’s Panzergrenadier in World War II.
Throughout history, infantry has been the main attacking force deployed by armies around the world, but positioning substantial infantry forces has always required precious time to assemble the troops to launch an attack or form defensive positions. With the development of the German Panzerwaffe, military planners realized both the enormous potential of the tank as a breakthrough HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD WAR II weapon, but also the issues faced by support units following the attacking Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 force—including the infantry. A tank assault moved rapidly forward and this 9781472841797 | $40.00 / $54.50 Can. required a motorized infantry which could keep pace with the attack and provide Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages all necessary support. This motorized infantry element for a Panzer division was 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W Fully illustrated in b/w an integral Schützenbrigade (rifle brigade), and it was equipped with a suitable means of transport—the Schützenpanzerwagen (armoured personnel carrier). During Operation Barbarossa, German forces were faced by the Red Army and unforeseen weather conditions. With the onset of the harsh Russian winter the MARKETING operation failed, and the war in the east entered a new phase. From experience Consumer review campaign on NetGalley Promoted in Osprey eblasts, direct mail, gained from the operation, a new arm of the military was created: the blogs, and social networking sites Panzergrenadier. This groundbreaking book describes the development and Print ads in Military History and MHQ evolution of the armoured infantry force that accompanied the German Panzers Online advertising with H-Net, Library as they crossed the battlefields of Europe, as well as detailing the vehicles and Journal, and Baker & Taylor Amazon A+ content equipment that were developed to support their specialized role. National publicity campaign A German national, Thomas Anderson is a specialist in the German Armored Fighting Vehicle of World War II. He has spent decades trawling the archives throughout Germany and the rest of Europe to discover little-known facts and never previously published photographs of the might of the Blitzkrieg. A modeler, he regularly contributes to popular modeling and historical magazines across the globe.
90 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Stalingrad 1942–43 (2) The Fight for the City
Robert Forczyk
The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.
After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942 that was intended HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD to achieve a decisive victory: Operation Blue (Case Blau). In this new campaign, WAR II one army group (Heeresgruppe A) would advance to seize the Soviet oilfelds in Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 the Caucasus, while the other (Heeresgruppe B) pushed on to the Volga River. 9781472842695 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. However instead of a rapid or complete victory, the German forces had to fight Trade Paperback | 96 pages 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W hard just to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad and then found themselves embroiled in a protracted urban battle amid the ruins of a devastated city on the Volga. Although hit hard by the initial German offensive, the Soviet Red Army was able to hold onto the city then mount a surprise winter counteroffensive MARKETING known as Operation Uranus, which succeeded in encircling the German 6. Targeted publicity campaign to popular military outlets, general military history Armee at Stalingrad. Despite a desperate German relief operation, the Red Army publications, and WWII outlets eventually crushed the 6. Armee and hurled the remnants of Heeresgruppe Süd back in disorder. This second volume in the Stalingrad trilogy begins with Vasily Chuikov’s appointment to command the Soviet 62nd Army in Stalingrad and covers the initial German attempts to seize the city, in the period from 12 September to 23 November 1942. This volume discusses the fighting in the city in fascinating detail, focusing on key points such as the infamous Tractor Factory (site of some of the most brutal fighting).
Robert Forczyk has a PhD in international relations and national security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army Reserves having served 18 years as an armor officer in the U.S. 2nd and 4th infantry divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). Dr. Forczyk is currently a consultant in the Washington, D.C., area.
91 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939–40 Stalin's hollow victory
David Murphy
This informative study explores the David vs. Goliath–type struggle of the Soviet invasion of Finland, detailing the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940.
This book covers the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940. The Soviet Union had sought to obtain Finnish border territories, HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD ostensibly to protect Leningrad. When Finland refused, Stalin ordered the WAR II Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 invasion to begin. Set against the background of the developing global conflict, 9781472843968 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. the Winter War saw the Finnish Army thwart the plans of the sizable Soviet Trade Paperback | 96 pages forces assembled against them. The major battles of the war, which took place in 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W bitter winter conditions, are covered in detail in this new volume, including the battles of the Mannerheim Line, the fighting in Ladoga Karelia and Kainuu, and the clashes in Finnish Lapland. This study also addresses the key points that led MARKETING to success and failure for both sides, how these influenced the campaigns that Targeted publicity campaign to popular followed in this theater, and the strategic sensitivity of the region today. military outlets, general military history publications, and WWII outlets Dr. David Murphy is a graduate of University College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin. He is currently a lecturer in military history and strategic studies at Maynooth University in Ireland. He has also lectured abroad at institutions including the Dutch Military Academy and West Point Military Academy. David is a member of the Royal United Services Institute, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is an external examiner for the Department of Defense Studies of King’s College, London...
92 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Armies of Julius Caesar 58–44 BC
Raffaele D’Amato, Francois Gilbert
This book draws upon the latest research to explain and illustrate the Roman and allied troops of the consular armies led by Julius Caesar in his Gallic and civil wars.
Caius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman general of all time. Although he never bore the title, historians since Suetonius have judged him to be, in practice, the very first “emperor”— after all, no other name in history has been synonymous with a title of imperial rule. Caesar was a towering personality HISTORY / ANCIENT / ROME who, for better or worse, changed the history of Rome forever. His unscrupulous Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 9781472845245 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. ambition was matched only by his genius as a commander, and his conquest of Trade Paperback | 64 pages Gaul brought Rome its first great territorial expansion outside the Mediterranean 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W world. His charismatic leadership bounded his soldiers to him not only for Black & white and colour photos. expeditions “beyond the edge of the world”—to Britain—but in the subsequent civil war that raised him to ultimate power. What is seldom appreciated, however, is that the army he led was as varied and cosmopolitan as those of later MARKETING centuries, and it is only recently that a wider study of a whole range of evidence Targeted publicity campaign to popular has allowed a more precise picture of it to emerge. Drawing on a wide range of military outlets and general military history new research, the authors examine the armies of Julius Caesar in detail, creating publications a detailed picture of how they lived and fought.
Raffaele D’Amato, PhD, is the author of some 40 books and numerous articles on the military of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages. He currently works as a lawyer and an external researcher for the Laboratory of the Danubian Provinces at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Florent Vincent is an illustrator specializing in historical and military subjects. He works with many French and foreign publishers and museums. He is also the coauthor of two books on the Gallic War...
93 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units
Mark Chambers
A fully illustrated guide to one of the finest dive-bombers produced during World War II, the Yokosuka D4Y “Judy.”
In 1938 the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu, ordered a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable “Val” aboard carriers. The resulting D4Y Suisei (“Comet”), codenamed “Judy” by the Allies, was initially powered by a licence-built German Daimler-Benz DB 601 inline engine. Despite making an inauspicious combat debut during the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the “Judy” eventually proved to be an important HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION asset for the IJNAF during battles in the latter years of the Pacific War. Its great Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 successes resulted in the sinking of the escort carrier USS Princeton in an early 9781472845047 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. kamikaze attack of the Philippines and the near sinking of the fleet carrier USS Trade Paperback | 96 pages 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Franklin in a dive-bombing attack off Japan. While the Judy possessed an impressive top-speed, like its predecessor, it possessed design shortcomings including inadequate armor protection for its aircrew and no self-sealing fuel tanks. As a result, when pitted against new, MARKETING advanced U.S. Navy fighters suffered horrendous losses. Targeted publicity campaign to popular military outlets, general military history During the final months of World War II it became apparent that there would be publications, and WWII outlets no Japanese victory. Acting out of desperation, the IJNAF employed the “Judy” in the dreaded kamikaze role, in which it excelled due to its high-speed characteristics. This volume chronicles the action-packed wartime exploits of Japan’s finest dive-bomber of World W...
Mark Chambers is an avid World War II aviation enthusiast and history author. He is the author of Osprey Publishing’s Combat Aircraft: Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units (2017) and General Aviation: Wings of the Rising Sun (2018). Jim Laurier is a native of New England. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000.
94 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2
Chris Goss
This illustrated study charts the development and combat history of the units that saw combat with the Dornier Do 217, one of the Luftwaffe’s workhorse bombers during World War II.
The Dornier Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from early 1941. Although it was initially used simply as a bomber, later variants allowed the Do 217 to undertake dive-bombing and maritime strike roles. In order to HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION perform the latter missions, the Do 217 was modified to launch glide Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 9781472846174 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. bombs—units employing these pioneering weapons enjoyed considerable Trade Paperback | 96 pages success in the Mediterranean from the autumn of 1943. Indeed, during the 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W course of these operations the Do 217 became the first aircraft in military aviation history to deploy a precision-guided bomb in combat in the form of the “Fritz X” radio-guided free-fall weapon, which sank the Italian battleship Roma MARKETING shortly after Italy capitulated in September 1943. The Do 217 served on all Targeted publicity campaign to popular fronts and also performed tactical operations, either direct ground assault or military outlets, general military history anti-shipping strikes during the Battles of the Atlantic and Normandy. This publications, WWII outlets, and Military Air versatile aircraft was also converted to become a nightfighter, seeing media considerable action in the defense of the Reich until war’s end. This illustrated study explores the design, development, and the many different deployments of the Do 217, charting its roles as strategic bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, and torpedo-bomber, among others.
Chris Goss is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who has studied the 1939–45 air war over northwest Europe for many years, specializing in Luftwaffe air operations. Chris has written more than 25 books that have been critically acclaimed for their research, including Bloody Biscay, Brothers in Arms, and The Luftwaffe’s Blitz. He has written three books for Osprey. Based in Poland, Janusz Swiatlon has produced artwork for a variety of British and European publications for many years.
95 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Holland 1940 The Luftwaffe's first setback in the West
Ryan K. Noppen
The history of how the Luftwaffe planned to knock out Holland in a surgical, lightning campaign, but instead suffered wounds against the Dutch that would come to haunt them in the Battle of Brita...
Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands on May 10, 1940 was supposed to be a lightning fast strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the Wehrmacht’s HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION assault on France and Belgium. In a bold maneuver, the German Luftwaffe Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 would launch what was the largest airborne operation in history, calculating that 9781472846686 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. surprise and speed would negate the need for a lengthy ground campaign, using Trade Paperback | 96 pages paratroops and air-landing troops to capture key strategic points. The entire 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and operation was expected to take only 24 hours. The actual campaign proved to be at least 14pp of colour illustrations much less efficient and had devastating results for the Luftwaffe. The Netherlands possessed Europe’s first fully integrated antiaircraft network. Furthermore, the Dutch were not taken by surprise on May 10, 1940, as is often assumed, thanks to the efforts of Dutch intelligence services and an early radar MARKETING Targeted publicity campaign to popular system. After May 10, the battle stalemated for four more days. Finally on the military outlets, general military history fifth day of the invasion, the Luftwaffe resorted to the terror bombing of publications, WWII outlets, and Military Air Rotterdam in a desperate and successful attempt to force the Dutch government media to capitulate. While the Battle of the Netherlands can be seen as a tactical victory for Germany, strategically it was the first major defeat for the Luftwaffe. Explaining the technical capabilities and campaign plans of the two sides, and charting how the battles were fought, this fascinating book re-examines and reassesses this little-known part of World War II.
Ryan K. Noppen is a military author and consultant and holds a master of arts degree in European History from Purdue University. He has worked as a naval and aviation expert on projects for the U.S. Navy, taught college courses in military history, and has served as the headmaster of a Classical grammar school. A scholar of Dutch, German, and Central European military history, he has published a major history of Dutch air power and has written several titles for Osprey. He lives in Virginia, USA...
96 OSPREY PUBLISHING SEPTEMBER 2021
Kurdish Armour Against ISIS YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014–19
Ed Nash & Alaric Searle
This book reveals how the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG/SDF developed their own armored force using captured tanks, homebuilt armor, and “technicals” and the role they played in the defeat of “Daesh.”
The emergence of the armored force of the YPG (People’s Protection Units), HISTORY / MILITARY / later renamed the Syrian Democratic Forces during the Syrian Civil War, is one VEHICLES of the major developments of this conflict. The YPG/SDF employed a range of Osprey Publishing | 9/14/2021 vehicles against “Daesh” during 201419 and this study identifies, as far as 9781472847584 | $19.00 / $25.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 48 pages possible, which vehicles took part in major battles, such as Kobane, Manbij, and 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Raqqa. While the YPG was frequently outgunned by the so-called Islamic State Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of (ISIS), it was able to rely on United States air support after 2015. Nonetheless, colour illustrations AFVs formed part of the fighting units and were important in both the fighting and propaganda war. The title covers the original sources of Kurdish tanks and other armored MARKETING vehicles: the T-55 tanks which the YPG employed were of Syrian Army origin, Targeted publicity campaign to popular left behind in the early chaotic days of the civil war; other AFVs were captured military outlets and general military history publications from ISIS, and often of U.S. Army origin, lost by the Iraqi Army following the fall of Mosul in 2014; others were constructed by the YPG themselves in workshops. These homemade tanks or infantry transporters were constructed from a variety of vehicles, including garbarge disposal trucks, diggers, and other agricultural vehicles. While the tanks and homemade armor attracted Western media attention, the most useful fighting vehicles were the Kurds’ technicals, or dushkas (pick-up trucks mounted with heavy-caliber weapons), fast vehicles used for fire support on a large sc...
Ed Nash fought for the YPG in 2015/16. He has recounted his experiences in the memoir Desert Sniper (Little, Brown, 2018). He holds a degree in history and he has published a number of articles on counterinsurgency, weapons technology, and military affairs. Alaric Searle is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Salford. He is the author of several works on military history, including Armored Warfare: A Military, Political and Global History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
97 OSPREY GAMES OCTOBER 2021
The Silver Bayonet A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror
Joseph A. McCullough
A skirmish wargame of gothic horror during the Napoleonic Wars written by Joseph A. McCullough, the award-winning creator of Frostgrave.
As the wars of Napoleon ravage Europe, supernatural creatures—vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and worse take advantage of the havoc, striking out at villages and even military units. Whether they are pursuing some master plan or GAMES & ACTIVITIES / ROLE PLAYING & FANTASY simply reveling in their newfound freedom is unknown. Osprey Games | 10/26/2021 In Britain, a secret award—the Silver Bayonet—is presented to soldiers who 9781472844859 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. have faced these creatures and survived. Then, they are swiftly seconded to a Hardcover with dust jacket | 208 pages specialist unit. Formed to destroy the supernatural menace, they investigate 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W strange reports, scour battlefields, and seek out allies and artifacts that could stem the tide. Britain is not alone—the other great nations have units dedicated to the fight against the supernatural—but that is not to say that mankind is united. While the rising darkness is a common foe, and rival units may forge uneasy and fleeting alliances, patriotism and national interest will just as often pit them against each other. The Silver Bayonet is a skirmish wargame of gothic horror set during the Napoleonic Wars. Each player forms a band of monster hunters drawn from the ranks of one of the great powers. Riflemen, swordsmen, and engineers fight side-by-side with mystics, occultists, and even a few supernatural creatures. The game can be played solo, cooperatively, or competitively, with their soldiers gaining experience and suffering grievous wounds and their units triumphing . . . or falling in the face of the shadows.
Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several nonfiction books, including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of Frostgrave and Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game.
98 OSPREY GAMES OCTOBER 2021
Brian Boru High King of Ireland
Peer Sylvester
A cutthroat game of power-brokering and intrigue in eleventh- century Ireland designed by award-winning designer Peer Sylvester. GAMES & ACTIVITIES / BOARD GAMES Ireland is awash with would-be kings, power-hungry pretenders, and Osprey Games | 10/26/2021 self-professed rulers. The provinces are in disarray and the common folk are 9781472844842 | $55.00 / $74.50 Can. Game paying the price. The land is in need of a leader. 11.7 in H | 11.7 in W In Brian Boru, players strive to unite Ireland under their domain, securing control through might, cunning, and matrimony. Join forces to fend off Viking invaders, build monasteries to extend your influence, and gather support in the MARKETING towns and villages throughout the land. To become the High King of all Ireland, Online ads targeted at The King Is Dead you will need to navigate a web of shifting alliances, outmaneuver your enemies, fans/players and other Peer Sylvester fans and grab history by the reigns. Sponsored post on Reddit Promoted in Osprey eblasts and social media Number of players: 3–4 Demo copy program Ages: 14+ Advertisement and catalog features with Play time: 60–90 minutes ACD and Alliance Components: board, 40+ cards, 75 tokens, 70 wooden discs Launch at top gaming events How-to-play videos on Osprey Games’ YouTube channel Peer Sylvester started his career in board gaming quite early because his dad needed an opponent in Reviews on gaming sites chess. In third grade he wanted to become a professional chess player. Instead he turned out to Reviews in gaming press become a teacher for math and chemistry. An award-winning board game designer of titles such as The Lost Expedition, The King Is Dead, and Wir sind das Volk!, he has written a number of books on the subject.
99 OSPREY GAMES OCTOBER 2021
Heirs to Heresy: The Fall of the Knights Templar A Roleplaying Game
Alan Bahr
Designed by bestselling roleplaying game designer Alan Bahr, Thirty by Fire is a roleplaying game of powerful Knights Templar escaping from a cruel world that has branded them heretics.
You are one of the thirty Knights Templar, who awoke on Friday, October 13, 1307, only to find yourself a wanted criminal and branded a heretic by the King
GAMES & ACTIVITIES / ROLE of France. Sent away early in the morning, you must leave Paris on a day of PLAYING & FANTASY reckoning and try to find your way across a dark, mythic Europe to a mystical Osprey Games | 10/26/2021 utopia where you can rebuild! The secrets of the Templars are yours to 9781472847607 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. safeguard, even if you can’t comprehend the depth of their mysteries. Hardcover with dust jacket | 192 pages Thirty by Fire starts as a historical themed roleplaying game, but is heavily 9 in H | 6 in W influenced by the wuxia genre, Gnosticism, European Folklore, and esotericism, as your Knights undertake a mystical journey to the center of themselves along the road to Avallonis. MARKETING The mechanics are a blend of narrative, storytelling rules, and classic old Reviews on top gaming sites school–inspired roleplaying rules that work to create rich aspect-driven Reviews in gaming press characters. All the knights can swing a sword or fight, so the game focuses on what the knights can do outside of that. Access to gnostic spells, unique powers, or intensely powerful faith sets you apart from your compatriots. Faith, spells, and your entire identity are powered by decreasing resources that you have to risk when you tap into your greatest potential on this last quest you’ll take for the order . . .
Alan Bahr is the lead designer and founder of Gallant Knight Games. A game designer best known for the bestselling TinyD6 line of games, along with other games such as Cold Shadows, For Coin & Blood, Planet Mercenary, Eorathril, and many more, Alan has been working in the RPG industry on a multitude of projects and has dozens of titles and writing credits to his name. He’s an avid fan of noir films, Arthurian mythos, smooth jazz, clever roleplaying games, and his amazing wife.
100 OSPREY GAMES OCTOBER 2021
Bolt Action: Campaign: Italy: Soft Underbelly
Warlord Games
A new supplement taking the award-winning World War II wargame Bolt Action to the Italian Theater, adding new units, scenarios and special rules.
Focusing on the invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, and the advance up the Italian Peninsula. With a host of new units, special rules and Theater Selectors this supplement for Bolt Action contains everything players need to refight these HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD important battles and strike at the underbelly of Axis-controlled Europe. WAR II Osprey Games | 10/26/2021 9781472852687 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. Warlord Games is one of the world’s leading producers of wargaming miniatures, as well as the Trade Paperback | 160 pages publisher of the successful Black Powder and Hail Caesar rule sets. Their Bolt Action range of 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W 28mm World War II miniatures is the most extensive on the market and continues to grow and develop.
101 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Pacific Carrier War Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
Mark Stille
A detailed study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway to the battle of the Philippine Sea.
The defining feature of the Pacific Theater of World War II was the clash of carriers that ultimately decided the fate of nations. The names of the battles HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD become legendary as some of the most epic encounters in the history of naval WAR II warfare. Prewar assumptions about the impact and effectiveness of carriers were Osprey Publishing | 10/12/2021 comprehensively tested in early war battles such as Coral Sea, while U.S. 9781472826336 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. victories at Midway and in the waters around Guadalcanal established the Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W supremacy of its carriers. The U.S. Navy’s ability to adapt and evolve to the changing conditions of war maintained and furthered their advantage, culminating in their comprehensive victory at the battle of the Philippine Sea, history’s largest carrier battle, which destroyed almost the entire Japanese carrier MARKETING force. Online ads targeted at WWII aviation enthusiasts Examining the ships, aircraft, and doctrines of both the Japanese and U.S. navies Email campaign to historic ship museums and how they changed during the war, Mark Stille shows how the domination of Promoted in Osprey eblasts and social American carriers paved the way toward the Allied victory in the Pacific. media Review campaign targeted to aviation magazines Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) spent his naval career as an intelligence Review campaign to aviation blogs and officer serving on the Joint Staff, the faculty of the Naval War College, and in the ship’s company of websites two aircraft carriers. He is the author of over 40 Osprey titles, focusing on the naval history of the Possible excerpt in history magazine Pacific War. He recently retired from government service after a total of 39 years in the intelligence General military history review campaign community and now lives in Annapolis, Maryland. targeted to publications
102 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
The Reckoning The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
Prit Buttar
Now in paperback, this book tells the engrossing account of the fighting in Ukraine in 1944, using the memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring the story to life.
“The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read. Bravo.” —Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcaster By the end of 1944 the Red Army was poised on the frontiers of the Third Reich. How had the once unstoppable Wehrmacht faltered so disastrously? It had suffered defeats before, in particular the vast catastrophe of Stalingrad, but it HISTORY / RUSSIA & THE was in 1944 that the war was ultimately lost. It was no longer a case of if but FORMER SOVIET UNION rather when the Red Army would be at the gates of Berlin. Osprey Publishing | 10/12/2021 9781472837929 | $21.00 / $28.50 Can. Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles and campaigns fought Trade Paperback | 416 pages throughout the Ukraine and Romania in 1944. January and February saw Army 9.2 in H | 6 in W Group South encircled in the Korsun Pocket. Although many of the encircled 32pp plate section in b&w troops escaped, in part due to Soviet intelligence and command failures, the Red Other Available Formats: Army would endeavor to not make the same mistakes again. Indeed, in the Hardcover ISBN: 9781472837912 coming months the Red Army would demonstrate an ability to learn and improve, reinventing itself as a war-winning machine, demonstrated clearly in its success in the Iasi-Kishinev operation. MARKETING The view of the Red Army as a huge, unskilled horde that rolled over everything Promoted in Osprey eblasts, direct mail, in its path is just one myth that The Reckoning reassess. Like all myths, they blogs, and social networking sites Amazon A+ content contain many truths but also a great many distortions, all of which are skilfully Email promotion to Bloomsbury analyzed in this powerful retelling of 1944 on the Eastern Front. Academic’s history subscribers in a bundle with Mutiny on the Spanish Main, MacArthur’s Air Force, Blood, Metal and PRAISE Dust, and I Will Run Wild “The Reckoning reinforces Prit Buttar’s standing as a leading authority on modern Review campaign to paperback columns nationwide warfare in Eastern Europe. If you find the scale and complexity of the Eastern Front battles daunting, pick up a copy, relax and let Prit Buttar lead the way . . . totally absorbing narrative.” —Mike Peters, Chairman, International Guild of Battlefield Guides
Prit Buttar is an expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history. His previous books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany’s Eastern Front 1944–45 (Osprey 2010) and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey 2013) and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21 (2017). He now lives in Kirkcudbright in Scotland.
103 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Japanese Soldier vs US Soldier New Guinea 1942–44
Gregg Adams
This absorbing study pits U.S. Army National Guardsmen against Japanese soldiers in the uniquely hostile setting of the New Guinea campaign in World War II.
When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, New Guinea—the world’s second-largest island—was administered partly by Australia and partly by the Dutch East Indies. The New Guinea campaign (January 1942–August 1945) saw Japanese forces invade the island, rapidly HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD WAR II capturing the port of Rabaul and threatening Port Moresby. The Allied victory at Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 Milne Bay swung the campaign; even so, it would take years for Allied forces to 9781472844163 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. clear the invaders from the island. The demanding environment, and the savage Trade Paperback | 80 pages nature of the fighting, made this campaign among the most arduous of World 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W War II for both sides. In this study, the Japanese forces and their U.S. Army opponents, many of whom were National Guard units, are assessed and compared, with particular attention MARKETING paid to combat doctrine, weaponry, tactics, leadership, and communications. The Targeted publicity campaign to popular role of U.S. Army National Guard and their Japanese opponents in three military outlets, general military history publications, and WWII outlets important battles are examined, namely: Buna–Gona (November 1942–January 1943), where inexperienced National Guardsmen were thrown into ill-supported attacks against Japanese forces; Biak Island (May–August 1944), where National Guardsmen encountered a new style of Japanese defense intended to inflict the maximum casualties on the attackers before the defenders were eliminated; and the Driniumor River (July–August 1944), with a focus on the battlefield experiences of the dismounted cavalrymen of the Texas National Guard.
Gregg Adams earned a doctorate in physics in 1983 from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He is the author of Osprey’s King’s African Rifles Soldier vs Schutztruppe Soldier and US Marine vs German Soldier. He lives in Virginia, USA. Steve Noon was born in Kent, UK, and attended art college in Cornwall. He’s had a life-long passion for illustration, and since 1985 has worked as a professional artist, illustrating over 30 books for Osprey.
104 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688–97
Gabriele Esposito
This book explores the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare.
Formed in 1689, the League of Augsburg was an alliance of nations comprising the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Spain, and the Duchy of Savoy, who were intent on standing firm and fighting against Louis XIV’s rich, powerful, and expansionist France. They were engaged in a long conflict against HISTORY / MODERN / 17TH the Sun King known as the War of the Grand Alliance. This conflict was notable CENTURY for the first widespread use of uniform clothing, flintlock musket, and bayonet, Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 9781472844354 | $19.00 / $25.99 Can. and for the birth of sophisticated siege warfare under the great French engineer Trade Paperback | 48 pages Vauban. The final Treaty of Ryswyck (1697), which ended the Grand Alliance 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W War, marked Louis XIV’s political zenith but also the ascendancy of England as a first-rate global power. While the League of Augsburg had been fighting against Louis XIV on the continent, Britain had been involved in its so-called MARKETING Glorious Revolution that saw the political ascendancy of William of Orange. Targeted publicity campaign to popular This fully illustrated title explores the armies that fought in the War of the military outlets and general military history League of Augsburg by examining their organization, uniforms, and arms. Also, publications the various military factions that participated in the Glorious Revolution, most notably the multinational army of William of Orange (comprising Dutch as well as English and Danish units), and the Jacobite troops who operated in Ireland.
Gabriele Esposito is a military historian and freelance author and researcher. His expertise ranges from ancient civilizations to modern postcolonial conflicts. His books and essays are published by Osprey Publishing, Pen & Sword, and Winged Hussar Publishing. Entirely self-taught, Giuseppe Rava is as a leading military history artist, and is inspired by the works of the great military artists, such as Detaille, Lady Butler, and Angus McBride. He lives and works in Italy.
105 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
The Panjshir Valley 1980–86 The Lion Tames the Bear in Afghanistan
Mark Galeotti
An in-depth look at the struggle between the charismatic rebel commander: Ahmad Shah Masud, “The Lion of Panjshir” and Soviet forces who fought to take the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan.
When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, they believed if they took the cities, the country would follow. They were wrong. The Red Army found itself HISTORY / MIDDLE EAST in a bloody stalemate in the Afghan mountains, in the strategically vital Panjshir Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 Valley, where they faced the most able and charismatic of the rebel commanders: 9781472844736 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. Ahmad Shah Masud, the “Lion of Panjshir.” Trade Paperback | 96 pages Time and again the Soviets and their Afghan counterparts sought to take control 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W of the Panjshir, and time and again the rebels either rebuffed their clumsy attempts or ambushed and evaded them, only to retake the valley as soon as Moscow’s attention was elsewhere. Over time, the rebels acquired new weapons MARKETING and developed their own tactics—as did the Soviets. The Panjshir was not just a Targeted publicity campaign to popular pivotal battlefield, it also shaped subsequent Afghan civil wars that followed military outlets Soviet withdrawal, and the military thinking that is still informing new Russian military. Featuring bold color artwork battlescenes and detailed maps of the fighting, this is a compelling study of one of the hardest fought struggles of the Soviet War in Afghanistan.
Professor Mark Galeotti is a former senior lecturer in international history at Keele University and Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at New York University. For 15 years (1991–2006), he wrote a monthly column for Jane’s Intelligence Review on Russian security. Mark's recent books for Osprey include Elite 217: The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016 and Elite 197: Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991.
106 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
The Ruhr 1943 The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s industrial heartland
Richard Worrall
This illustrated study explores the RAF’s first focused air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany—the industrial heartland of the Ruhr.
Between March and July 1943, RAF Bomber Command undertook its first concentrated bombing campaign, the Battle of the Ruhr, whose aim was nothing HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION less than the destruction of the industry that powered the German war machine. Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 This campaign has often been overshadowed by its most famous single raid—the 9781472846563 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. “Dambusters” attack on the Ruhr dams. However, it was much larger, more Trade Paperback | 96 pages complex, and more important than a single raid. This mighty, industrial Ruhr 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and region contained not just some of the most famous and important arms makers, at least 14pp of colour illustrations such as the gunmakers Krupp of Essen, but also many of the other industries that the German war economy relied on, from steelmakers to synthetic oil plants. As such a valuable target, the Ruhr was one of the most heavily defended regions in Europe. MARKETING Targeted publicity campaign to popular This book examines how the brutal Ruhr campaign was conceived and fought, military outlets, general military history and how Bomber Command’s relentless pursuit of this objective drew it into publications, and WWII outlets raids on targets beyond the Ruhr, from the nearby city of Cologne to the Skoda works in Czechoslovakia. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, this is the story of the first titanic struggle in the skies over Germany between RAF Bomber Command and the Luftwaffe, as the British bombers set out to destroy industrial Germany.
Dr. Richard Worrall teaches at the Department of History, Politics & Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has taught history for over ten years, most recently in Singapore and previously at the London School of Economics and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has a PhD from the University of Oxford, and he also holds an MA in Imperial and Commonwealth History from King’s College London, and a BSc in International History from the LSE.
107 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defences Western Europe 1943–45
Jonathan Bernstein
A detailed look at the tactics and techniques used by both P-47 fighter-bomber pilots and the German flak gunners charged with preventing their attacks.
Since the end of World War II, the tactical air war over Europe has been overlooked by historians. Involving as many aircraft as the daylight heavy HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION bombing campaign, the fighter-bombers wreaked considerable havoc on German Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 9781472846297 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. ground forces. P-47 pilots paid a high price to achieve this, however, as the Trade Paperback | 80 pages German flak arm was well equipped with weapons to counter tactical air 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W power’s low to medium altitude threat. The USAAF suffered significant fighter- bomber losses to flak. The principle fighter-bomber starting the summer of 1944 was the P-47D, with dedicated ground attack units and squadrons that had MARKETING completed their bomber escort seeking out targets across occupied Western Targeted publicity campaign to popular Europe. military outlets, general military history While heavy-caliber anti-aircraft fire was intended to both shoot down enemy publications, WWII outlets, and military air aircraft and force bombers to drop their ordnance sooner, low-altitude flak media batteries put up a virtual “wall of steel” for enemy fighter-bombers to fly through. Innovations like lead-computing gunsights gave gunners a higher probability of intercepting low-altitude fighters. Conversely, the appearance of air-to-ground rockets beneath the wings of P-47s gave pilots better standoff range and a harder-hitting punch. This volume analyzes the tactics and techniques used by both P-47 fighter- bomber pilots and German flak gunners, featuring full-color illustrations to examine the Allied tactical air power in Europe from 1943 and how German defenses were overpowered by the air threat.
Jonathan Bernstein is an aviation author, historian, former attack helicopter pilot, and current director of the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Museum. He is the author of three Osprey Combat Aircraft volumes, and has also had books published by Squadron/Signal Publications and Elephant Books. Jonathan is a frequent contributor to National Guard Magazine, Supply Line, and Armor Journal.
108 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
SBD Dauntless vs A6M Zero-sen 1942–44 Pacific
Donald Nijboer
The SBD Dauntless and Zero-sen are two of the most iconic aircraft of World War II and this illustrated study describes the fighting capabilities of both when engaged in aerial combat.
The SBD Dauntless dive-bomber was key in the U.S. Navy’s aerial arsenal throughout the Pacific War. Despite its classification as a dive-bomber and rather dated appearance, the SBD Dauntless could more than handle its own against the feared A6M Zero-sen—a regular opponent in the Pacific. The SBD was credited HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION with 138 victories in aerial combat, 107 of which were fighters and the rest Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 9781472846334 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. bombers. Seven SBD units claimed five or more aerial victories, with future ace Trade Paperback | 80 pages Lt(jg) John Leppla of VS-2 being credited with four victories while flying from 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W the carrier USS Lexington. The Zero-sen came to symbolize Japan’s military prowess, and it quickly became the world’s premier carrier-based fighter—a title it would hold well into 1943. The psychological impact of the Zero-sen was so MARKETING great that all Allied fighters were judged by the standards set by it. The aviators Targeted publicity campaign to popular flying the A6M in 1941-42 were amongst the most experienced fighter pilots in military outlets, general military history the world, and they claimed a significant number of the SBDs destroyed during publications, WWII outlets, and military air media the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and Santa Cruz in 1942. But, the rugged dive-bomber gave as good as it got and emerged, not surprisingly, victorious on many occasions. This book examines these aircraft in detail, exploring their history and development and contains descriptions of the combats between the SBD Dauntless and Zero-sen throughout the first four carrier battles of 1942 and the Solomons Campaign.
Donald Nijboer is a bestselling aviation author, historian, documentary writer-producer, and Smithsonian Speaker. He is the author of seven books for Osprey in the Duel and Aviation Elite Units series, and has also written a handful of other books for publishers in North America. Currently, he is writing and producing aviation documentaries for Aerocinema.com. He has also written articles for Flight Journal, Aviation History, and Aeroplane Monthly. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada.
109 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Douglas XB-19 America's giant World War II intercontinental bomber
William Wolf
An authoritative, superbly illustrated history of the huge Douglas XB-19 intercontinental bomber, the biggest bomber the United States built in World War II.
In 1935 the USAAC wanted to build a potential intercontinental bomber, a “Guardian of the Hemisphere,” and granted Donald Douglas a contract to build the world’s largest bomber. The groundwork for the intercontinental bomber had HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION been laid in the previous two decades by the courageous military and civilian Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 pilots who risked their lives to set new distance and endurance records. After 9781472847195 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. World War I the future Axis and Allied nations built larger aircraft, and finally Trade Paperback | 80 pages during World War II Germany and Japan became intent on developing 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Illustrated throughout with around 50 photos and intercontinental bomber to retaliate against America. While the XB-19 never at least 5pp of colour artwork flew as an intercontinental bomber or even as a combat bomber, its contributions as a “Flying Laboratory” significantly influenced the development of the Consolidated B-36 Peacemaker, the world’s first true intercontinental bomber. Since the XB-19 project was top secret and there was only one example built MARKETING Targeted publicity campaign to popular there is little information remaining for researchers. Over the years Bill Wolf has military outlets, general military history collected the largest quantity of XB-19 material and a number of photographs, publications, and air media including a copy of the original Army Air Force acceptance of the aircraft, first-hand narratives of its first flight, and other USAAC and Douglas Company documents. This book provides a superbly illustrated history of the XB-19 intercontinental bomber and the text is supported by previously unpublished photographs.
Dr. William Wolf is the author of 24 books on World War II air combat. He was a dentist for 22 years before retiring at the age of 45 to pursue his aviation interests. Over the past 45 years he has collected over 25,000 books and magazines; 10,000-plus photographs; along with 2,000 reels of rare microfilm from original World War II sources (equivalent to 2.5 million pages, indexed, and placed on microfiche); over 800 videos and DVDs; and 1,000-plus CDs of scanned manuals and books.
110 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Warships in the Spanish Civil War
Angus Konstam
This study of the naval Spanish Civil War describes how the Spanish Navy, torn in two, fought a civil war at sea involving both Hitler’s and Mussolini’s navies.
In July 1936, a pro-fascist coup orchestrated by General Franco tore Spain apart, and plunged the country into a bitter civil war. Like Spain itself, the Spanish Navy was torn in two: crews and most ships remained loyal to the Republican government, but many of the Navy’s officers joined Franco’s rebels, and HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL warships under repair or “mothballed” in southern ports soon fell to the rebel Osprey Publishing | 10/26/2021 9781472848666 | $19.00 / $25.99 Can. advance. These formed the basis of Franco’s “Nationalist fleet,” and with both Trade Paperback | 48 pages Italian and German help, the rebels were able to contest the Republic’s control of 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Spanish waters. The prewar Spanish Navy had been sizable, although many of Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of its ships were aging or mothballed, and included a pair of dreadnought colour illustrations battleships. Overall the Republican Navy held its own, despite mounting losses, until the collapse of the Republican Army led to the fleet seeking internment in French North Africa. MARKETING Packed with contemporary photographs and full-color illustrations, this study Targeted publicity campaign to popular examines the composition and organization of the two rival fleets, explores the military outlets, general military history publications, and WWII outlets capabilities of their ships and the motivation of the crews, and takes a brief look at the performance of both sides in action. It also describes warships of the Basque Auxiliary Navy—an offshoot of the Republican Fleet—and describes other navies who played a part in the conflict, most notably the Italian Regia Marina.
Angus Konstam is the author of over 100 history books, 60 of which are published by Osprey. He has written widely on naval history, from Sovereigns of the Seas and Piracy: The Complete History to his most recent bestseller, Hunt the Bismarck. A former naval officer and museum professional, he worked as the Curator in both the Royal Armories, Tower of London and the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. He now works as a full-time author and historian and lives in Orkney, Scotland.
111 OSPREY GAMES NOVEMBER 2021
Wars of the Republic Ancient Roman Wargaming 343–50 BC
Eric Farrington
A set of wargaming rules covering the wars of Republican Rome, from the First Samnite War to the end of the Gallic Wars.
From the First Samnite War to the conquest of Gaul, from the defeat at Lake Trasimene to the victory of Alesia, Wars of the Republic features all the rules required to wargame this period with army lists that reflect the changing nature of the Roman military, as well as those of their opponents be it Gaul, Carthaginian, Spaniard, or Greek. Wars of the Republic allows you to campaign HISTORY / ANCIENT / ROME with the legions or stand firm against Roman expansion and fight throughout the Osprey Games | 11/23/2021 Ancient World. 9781472844910 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 64 pages 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Eric Farrington is a veteran wargamer since the late ’80s. He started his path in fantasy and cci-fi wargaming before moving into historicals. He has a BA in history from the University of Minnesota, is a corporate efficiency expert, and owns a number of small businesses including Blood and Spectacles Publishing. Eric is married with one child and has lived in Minnesota most of his life. MARKETING Reviews on top gaming sites Reviews in gaming press
112 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
The Battle of Britain Struggle for the skies
Dale Carothers, Daniel DeVargas
The Battle of Britain is a thrilling full-color graphic novel following the pilots of the Royal Air Force and German Luftwaffe during World War II as they battled for supremecy.
In the summer of 1940, the bombs began to fall over Britain. Seeking to pave the way for a full-scale invasion, Luftwaffe bombers flew over the English Channel, dropping their deadly payload on key targets across the south of England. Scrambling to meet them were the pilots of the Royal Air Force. Men from Britain, the British Empire, and Commonwealth, and even volunteers from occupied and neutral territories took to the skies against the might of the German COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / forces. The Battle of Britain had begun. HISTORICAL FICTION Delving into the battle through the eyes of the pilots who lived through it, as Osprey Publishing | 11/9/2021 well as the men and women in support roles on the ground, this vibrant graphic 9781472838698 | $26.00 / $34.99 Can. novel combines expert knowledge and master storytelling to bring the campaign Trade Paperback | 328 pages 10.2 in H | 6.6 in W to life, from the epic dogfights along the coast to the terror of the London Blitz.
Dale Carothers lives in Minnesota with his wife, Sara, and a dog that bears a strange resemblance to Don Knotts when it smiles. He’s a fantasy writer, a sass mouth, and a cake enthusiast. Each of MARKETING these pursuits gives him great joy, and he discovered a love for history while doing research for his Online ads targeted at military history stories. Daniel DeVargas has been passionate about art, writing, and history since an early age, and enthusiasts as well as players of Call of dedicates much of his time to these activities. He currently lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Duty and World of Warplanes Promoted in Osprey eblasts and social media Publicity campaign in comics and pop culture media, as well as book trade publications Targeted review campaign to military publications Possible excerpt in military history magazine Review campaign to newspapers and magazines Review and feature campaign to military podcasts, blogs, and website
113 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Churchill, Master and Commander Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945
Anthony Tucker-Jones
An engaging study of Winston Churchill’s career as a military commander, from his early experiences in Britain’s colonial wars to his strategic command in World War II.
Winston Churchill is widely hailed as Britain’s greatest wartime leader and politician. Deep down, though, he was foremost a warlord. Just like his ally Stalin and his archenemies Hitler and Mussolini, Churchill could not help himself and insisted on personally directing the strategic conduct of World War HISTORY / MILITARY / II. For better or worse he insisted on being political master and military STRATEGY commander. Again like his wartime contemporaries, he had a habit of not Osprey Publishing | 10/12/2021 9781472847331 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. heeding the advice of his generals. The results of this were disasters in Norway, Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages North Africa, Greece, and Crete during 1940 and 1941. Churchill’s 9.2 in H | 6 in W pigheadedness over supporting the Italian campaign in defiance of the Riviera 16pp plate section in b&w landings culminated in his threatening to resign and bring down the British government. Yet on occasion he got it just right: his refusal to surrender in 1940, the British miracle at Dunkirk, and victory in the Battle of Britain showed that MARKETING he was a much-needed decisive leader. Nor did he shy away from difficult Promoted in Osprey eblasts and social decisions, such as the destruction of the French Fleet to prevent it falling into media German hands and his subsequent war against Vichy France. Outreach to history museum stores Consumer review on NetGalley In this fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Anthony Tucker-Jones Email promotion to Bloomsbury explores the record of Winston Churchill as a military commander. This book Academic’s history subscribers assesses his choices in the some of the most controversial and high-profile Print ads in Military History and MHQ campaigns of World War II and how in high office his decision making was both Targeted Facebook and Google ads Approach military book clubs right and wrong. Advertising with MH podcasts Print and online reviews and features Anthony Tucker-Jones, a former intelligence officer, is a highly prolific writer and military WWII outlets historian with well over 50 books to his name. His work has also been published in an array of magazines and online. He regularly appears on television and radio commenting on current and historical military matters.
114 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
The United States Navy in World War II From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
Mark Stille
A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations, and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945.
Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the U.S. was struck a serious blow when its battleships, the lynchpin of HISTORY / MILITARY / NAVAL U.S. naval doctrine, were the target of the dramatic attack at Pearl Harbor. In the Osprey Publishing | 11/9/2021 Pacific Theater, the U.S. was thereafter locked into a head to head struggle with 9781472848048 | $35.00 / $54.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages the impressive Imperial Japanese Navy, fighting a series of major battles in the 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W Coral Sea, at Midway, the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa in the Fully illustrated with colour and black and white struggle for supremacy over Japan. Having avoided the decisive defeat sought photographs and colour artwork. by the IJN, the U.S. increased industrial production and by the end of the war, the U.S. Navy was larger than any other in the world. Meanwhile in the west, the U.S. Navy operated on a second front, supporting landings in North Africa, MARKETING Sicily, and Italy, and in 1944 played a significant part in the D-Day landings, the Consumer reviews on NetGalley largest and most complex amphibious operation of all time. Written by an Promoted in Osprey eblasts and social media acknowledged expert and incorporating extensive illustrations including Email promotion to Bloomsbury photographs, maps, and color artwork, this book offers a detailed look at the Academic’s history subscribers strategy operations and vessels of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Email advertising through veterans and active-duty military associations Online ads targeted at WWII and naval Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) received his BA in history from the history enthusiasts University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College. He recently concluded a Print and online review and features nearly 40-year career in the intelligence community including tours on the faculty of the Naval War WWII outlets College, on the Joint Staff, and on U.S. Navy ships. He is the author of numerous Osprey titles focusing on naval history in the Pacific.
115 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
War of Empires, A Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941–45
Robert Lyman
A War of Empires is a sweeping saga of the longest Allied campaign of World War II. A clash of empires, it was a war that would change the future of both Britain and the Indian subcontinent.
In December 1941 the Japanese empire smashed into the British, American, and European empires in the Pacific and Far East. Japan had long desired an empire to rival that of the United States and European powers. The Japanese swept into Malaya and Burma as it simultaneously attempted to prevent America deploying its Pacific Fleet from Pearl Harbor. By February Singapore had fallen, and by HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD WAR II May 1940 the Japanese had pushed the weak British forces out of Burma into Osprey Publishing | 11/9/2021 India. 9781472847140 | $35.00 / $47.50 Can. But change was coming. In 1943 the Allies—British, American, and Hardcover with dust jacket | 488 pages Chinese—were determined to defeat the Japanese. New commanders were 9.2 in H | 6 in W 24pp plate section, mostly black and white appointed and significant training together took place; new equipment arrived and new tactics developed. Perhaps most significantly, the Indian Army, defeated in 1941/2, was rebuilt. A million new recruits—all volunteers—were added to its ranks. Many of these Indian volunteers were fighting not to preserve the British Empire, but to resist the far more brutal Japanese empire and in hope for a future, independent India. 1944 would see the tide of war inexorably turn. Allied defeat in 1942 now turned into a series of extraordinary victories culminating in the Japanese defeat at Mandalay in May 1945 and the collapse of all Japanese forces in Burma. Robert Lyman charts this dramatic change in fortunes as Allied forces fought against a brutal enemy. Their victories would ultimately redraw the map of the region with an independent India.
Robert Lyman is one of Britain’s most talented military historians, with fifteen bestselling books published to date and numerous appearances on television. He was the military consultant to the BBC for the Victory over Japan memorial celebrations in the UK in 2015 and for the 70th anniversary in 2020. He was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into the Light Infantry in 1982 and spent 20 years in the British Army. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
116 OSPREY PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2021
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club, The Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
The “Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club” was the tongue-in-cheek nickname of the U.S. Seventh Fleet that was stationed off the coast of Vietnam. This book tells the full story of the U.S. Naval air campaign ...
On August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox became embroiled in the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to America’s increased involvement in the Vietnam War. Supporting the Maddox were four F-8E Crusaders from the USS Ticonderoga, and this was the very start of the U.S. Navy’s commitment to the air war over HISTORY / MILITARY / VIETNAM Vietnam. WAR The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club is titled after the nickname for the U.S. Navy’s Osprey Publishing | 10/12/2021 Seventh Fleet, which was stationed off the coast of Vietnam, and it tells the full 9781472845955 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. story of the U.S. Navy’s war in the air. It details all the operations from the USS Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W Maddox onwards through to the eventual withdrawal of the fleet following the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975. The Seventh Fleet’s Task Force 77, which at points had as many as six carriers on station at any one time with 70–100 aircraft on each, provided vital air MARKETING support, while at the same time taking part in the major operations against North Promoted in Osprey eblasts, direct mail, blogs, and social networking sites Vietnam itself such as Rolling Thunder and Linebacker I and II. All of these Email promotion to Bloomsbury operations took place in a hostile environment of flak, missiles and MiGs. Academic’s history subscribers The story is told through the dramatic firsthand accounts of those that took part Advertising with H-NET and MHQ in the fighting, with many of the interviews carried out by the author himself. Consumer review campaign on NetGalley Promotion in B&T Dispatches The Vietnamese perspective is also given, with the author having had access to Outreach to Vietnam Veterans the official Vietnamese account of the war in the air. The author also has a associations and online forums personal interest, as he served with the U.S. Seventh Fleet off the coast of... National print, broadcast, and online review campaign Thomas McKelvey Cleaver is a regular contributor to Flight Journal magazine. He is the author of Aces of the 78th Fighter Group and F4F and F6F Aces of VF-2, as well as Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15 and The Bridgebusters: The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Group. During his 30 years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, he wrote the cult classic The Terror Within. He served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam.
117 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
British Sniping Rifles since 1970 L42A1, L96A1 and L115A3
Steve Houghton
Sure to appeal to all those interested in military sniping, this study assesses the use of three iconic sniping weapons over five decades.
In the 1950s the British Army ended the selection and training of soldiers for sniping duties, instead concentrating its efforts on the perceived military challenges of the Cold War. Chambering the .303 round, the venerable Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk 1T bolt-action sniping rifle was still available, but the HISTORY / MILITARY / WEAPONS Soviet Union had developed a new sniper system based on the Dragunov Osprey Publishing | 11/23/2021 9781472842350 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. self-loading rifle. In response to the Soviet challenge, the British Army adopted Trade Paperback | 80 pages the 7.62mm L42A1 bolt-action sniping rifle. The L42A1 was deployed in 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Dhofar and Northern Ireland, but arguably saw its finest hour during the Falklands War (1982). The harsh conditions of the South Atlantic laid bare the L42A1’s inadequacies. MARKETING A new company, Accuracy International, won the contract to replace the L42A1 Targeted publicity campaign to popular and their PM Rifle, a world-beating revolutionary design, was adopted in 1985 military outlets, general military history as the L96A1. Progressively upgraded, the L96A1 went on to serve as the publications, and arms magazines British Army’s primary sniper system, being deployed in Northern Ireland, the First Gulf War, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The L115A3, chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum, joined the L96A1 in the front line in 2008 and since 2012 has been Britain’s standard issue sniping rifle. Fully illustrated, this study assesses the development, combat use, impact, and legacy of these three iconic British sniping weapons and details their use since 1970.
Steve Houghton, a former soldier in the Royal Green Jackets, has been an avid collector of British sniping weapons for the last twenty years. He is the author of The British Sniper, A Century of Evolution. Johnny Shumate began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University, and now works as a freelance illustrator. Born in Malaya in 1949, Alan Gilliland spent 18 years as the graphics editor of the Daily Telegraph, winning 19 awards in that time.
118 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946–60 Early Cold War armor in Central Europe
Steven J. Zaloga
A study of Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced off against each other in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics, and doctrine were rapidly developed.
HISTORY / MILITARY / WEAPONS For 45 years, the most disputed point in the world was the dividing line between Osprey Publishing | 11/23/2021 East and West in Europe and the use and development of tanks was key to 9781472843296 | $19.00 / $25.99 Can. upholding this balance of power. In this fully illustrated study, the author Trade Paperback | 48 pages describes how Soviet and NATO tanks faced off in the early years of the Cold 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of War, and how the generation of tanks such as the Soviet T-44/T-54 and IS-3, colour illustrations British Centurion, U.S. Army M26/M46 Pershing, developed during World War II, saw extensive service after the war had ended. Initial postwar generation tanks including the Soviet T-54A, T-10 heavy tank, British late-model Centurions, Conqueror, U.S. Army M41, M47, M48, and the French AMX-13, MARKETING Targeted publicity campaign to popular are analyzed with the most important technical trends during the era: the military outlets, general military history development of shaped-charge anti-tank projectiles, the influence of anti-tank publications, and arms magazines missiles, and the introduction of chemical/nuclear protection and night fighting equipment. With a prime focus on technology, the volume also looks at the influence of postwar doctrine and tactics on tank technology and the influence of regional conflicts such as the 1950 Korean War, the war in Indo-China, and the 1956 Mid East War on tank warfare.
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in history from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, with a focus on the U.S. Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. He lives in Maryland.
119 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
Leyte Gulf 1944 (1) The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar
Mark Stille
This is the first in a two-part study of the October 23–26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese.
In The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Center Force took part in two major actions during the course of the battle: the intense air attacks from U.S. Navy carriers on October 24 (the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, which accounted for super battleship Musashi), and the compelling action off Samar HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD WAR II the following day. A considerable body of myth surrounds the latter, since most Osprey Publishing | 11/23/2021 accounts of the Samar fighting assume it to have been a crushing Imperial 9781472842817 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. Japanese Navy victor—in truth, the result was anything but that. This book Trade Paperback | 96 pages examines in detail why, following the Samar action, the Imperial Japanese Navy 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Colour illustrations throughout, including 2d commander of the Center Force, Takeo Kurita, choose to ignore orders and maps, photographs, 3d diagrams, and break off the attack into Leyte Gulf—one of the two most controversial battlescene artworks. decisions of the entire battle. In the first of two volumes, Mark Stille examines the Japanese planning for Leyte Gulf, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Imperial Japanese Navy in this phase of the war alongside the U.S. Navy’s MARKETING planning and command arrangements, which had the potential to end in disaster. Targeted publicity campaign to general This book also focuses on the commanders on each side whose decisions shaped military history publications, WWII outlets, this definitive battle. and naval history publications Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) received his BA in history from the University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College. He has worked in the intelligence community for 35 years, including tours on the faculty of the Naval War College, on the Joint Staff, and on U.S. Navy ships. He is currently a senior analyst working in Washington, D.C. Mark is the author of numerous Osprey titles, and has a special interest in the naval history of the Pacific region.
120 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
Battle of Hue 1968, The Fight for the Imperial City
James H Willbanks
In January 1968, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam. The bloodiest battle occurred in Hue, the most venerated place in Vietnam.
This long-awaited addition to the Campaign series addresses the bloody fighting in Hue, South Vietnam, during the Communists’ 1968 Tet Offensive. Hue was HISTORY / MILITARY / VIETNAM the ancient capital of Vietnam and, as such, had been previously avoided by both WAR sides, thus it had not seen any serious fighting prior to 1968. All that changed on Osprey Publishing | 11/23/2021 the night of January 31 when four North Vietnamese battalions and supporting 9781472844712 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. Viet Cong units simultaneously attacked and occupied both parts of the city, Trade Paperback | 96 pages 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W which straddled the Perfume River. The Communist forces dug in and prepared Full colour illustrations throughout, including to defend their hold on the city. U.S. Marines and a small group of South battlescene artworks, 2d maps, 3D diagrams, Vietnamese soldiers were ordered to clear the city. An epic battle ensued as the and photographs. combat raged from house to house and door to door. It was a bloody fight and resulted in large-scale destruction of Hue. Eventually, the Marines and the South Vietnamese forces retook the city, but it turned out to be one of the most important battles of the war.
Dr. James H. Willbanks is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served in the CGSC faculty from 1992. He retired from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel with 23 years’ service as an infantry officer in various assignments, including a tour as an infantry advisor with a South Vietnamese regiment during the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive. Prior to assuming the Marshall Chair, Dr. Willbanks served as director of the CGSC Department of Military History for eleven years.
121 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
US Navy Special Warfare Units in Korea and Vietnam UDTs and SEALs, 1950–73
Eugene Liptak
This fully illustrated study describes the vital combat roles of the U.S. Special Warfare units, latterly including the renowned SEALs, during two of the deadliest conflicts of the Cold War.
During the Korean War (1950–53) and the Vietnam War (1962–73), U.S. Navy Special Warfare units played a variety of vital combat roles amid two of the HISTORY / MILITARY / KOREAN deadliest conflicts of the Cold War. In Korea, underwater demolition teams WAR Osprey Publishing | 11/23/2021 (UDTs) surveyed beaches for amphibious operations, cleared sea mines from 9781472846921 | $20.00 / $26.99 Can. harbors, conducted seaborne raids against inshore targets, and served as scouts Trade Paperback | 64 pages for the infiltration of Korean guerrillas and British Royal Marine Commando 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W raids along the North Korean coast. In South Vietnam, UDTs surveyed beaches Black & white and colour photos. and demolished Viet Cong bunkers, supply caches, and river obstacles in the Mekong Delta. The SEALs (Sea Air Land teams) deployed entire platoons into the Mekong Delta and the Rung Sat Special Zone to conduct guerrilla warfare MARKETING against the Viet Cong that included ambushes, reconnaissance, and capturing Targeted publicity campaign to popular leaders and supply caches. The SEALs also played important roles in the military outlets and general military history Phoenix Program and in rescuing prisoners of war. Fully illustrated throughout, this study explores how the U.S. Navy’s specially trained naval commandos accomplished their missions in Korea and Vietnam. It includes material from recently declassified U.S. Navy unit histories and features photographs from the National Archives and the National UDT-SEAL Museum.
Eugene Liptak holds both a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Arizona. His interest in military history comes from reading, documentaries, movies, and visiting museums. Stephen Walsh studied art at the North East Wales Institute and has worked as a professional illustrator since 1988. Since then he has illustrated a variety of books and games including Settlers of Catan
122 OSPREY PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 2021
Desert Storm 1991 The most shattering air campaign in history
Richard P. Hallion
A new illustrated analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world’s fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days.
The combat phase of the Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, was 43 days long. This consisted of a 39-day air campaign followed by a 4-day armored mechanized assault. Together they shattered what had been the world’s fourth- largest army and sixth-largest air force and overturned conventional military HISTORY / MILITARY / PERSIAN GULF WAR (1991) assumptions about the effectiveness and value of air power. Osprey Publishing | 11/23/2021 In this book, Richard P. Hallion, one of the world’s foremost experts on air 9781472846969 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. warfare, explains why Desert Storm was a revolutionary victory, a war won with Trade Paperback | 96 pages no single climcatic battle. Instead, victory came thanks to a rigorously planned 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and campaign, which opened with a devastating night of attacks that shattered Iraq’s at least 14pp of colour illustrations advanced air defense system and allowed follow-on strikes in the following weeks to savage its military infrastructure and troops in the field—largely by destroying capabilities and equipment, without massive loss of life. When the Coalition tanks finally rolled into Iraq, to widespread Iraqi surrenders, it was less MARKETING Targeted publicity campaign to popular an assault than an occupation. military outlets, general military history The rapid victory in Desert Storm, which surprised many observers, led to publications, and Military Air media widespread military reform as the world’s advanced militaries saw the new capabilities of precision air power. The military world that we live in today (and will in the future) reflects, to a very large degree, the transformation of military power heralded by the air campaign in the 1991 Gulf War.
Richard P. Hallion holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland and has completed specialized governmental and national security programs at the Federal Executive Institute and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum; the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the Army War College; the Charles Lindbergh Professor at the National Air and Space Museum; and The Air Force Historian.
123 OSPREY GAMES DECEMBER 2021
Frostgrave: Blood Legacy
Joseph A. McCullough
A supplement for Frostgrave with expanded rules for vampires and giants, a new soldier type in the giant-blooded, and guidelines and scenarios for playing Frostgrave with high-level wizards.
In the days of ancient Felstad, vampires kept to the shadows, their small numbers no match for the city’s wizards. But when the cataclysm struck, the wizards were destroyed, while the vampires went into frozen hibernation. Now, as the city thaws, so to do its undead inhabitants. Vampires are rising again: reoccupying their strongholds, reforming their old cabals, and finding new victims to serve as thralls. The destruction of the old city has brought one other GAMES & ACTIVITIES / ROLE boon to the vampires—giant’s blood. While giants used to live out of reach to PLAYING & FANTASY the far north, in the intervening millennium they have descended on the city in Osprey Games | 12/7/2021 large numbers. Their blood is like an elixir to the vampires, filling them with 9781472841599 | $30.00 / $39.99 Can. strength and magical power. A new war is forming between these two ancient Trade Paperback | 96 pages 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W races, and once again the wizards of Frostgrave are caught in the middle. 40 col This supplement for Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City presents greatly expanded information about the vampires and the giants that occupy the frozen ruins, including rules for vampiric magic and a breakdown of the different tribes of giants. Also included are rules for a new type of soldier, the MARKETING giant-blooded. These huge men and women have the blood of giants running Reviews on top gaming sites Reviews in gaming press through their veins, granting them great strength. Finally, the book contains a section on playing Frostgrave with high-level wizards and includes two mini-campaigns to challenge these experienced spellcasters.
Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several non-fiction books, including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. His fantasy short stories have appeared in books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of Frostgrave and Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game.
124 OSPREY PUBLISHING DECEMBER 2021
B-25 Mitchell vs Japanese Destroyer Battle of the Bismarck Sea 1943
Mark Lardas
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II and this highly illustrated study details the three-day fight which shaped the outcome of the war.
Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION Osprey Publishing | 12/21/2021 USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships. Indeed, warships in particular 9781472845177 | $22.00 / $30.00 Can. proved to be too elusive for conventional medium-level bombing. High-level Trade Paperback | 80 pages attacks wasted bombs, and torpedo attacks required extensive training. But as 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W 1942 closed, the Fifth Air Force developed new weapons and new tactics that were not just effective, they were deadly. A maintenance officer assigned to a B-25 unit found a way to fill the bombardier’s position with four 0.50-cal machine guns and strap an additional four 0.50s to the sides of the bomber, firing forward. Additionally, skip-bombing was developed. This called for mast-top height approaches flying the length of the target ship. If the bombs missed the target, they exploded in the water close enough to crush the sides. The technique worked perfectly when paired with “strafe” B-25s. Over the first two months of 1943, squadrons perfected these tactics. Then, in early March, Japan tried to reinforce their garrison in Lae, New Guinea, with a 16-ship convoy – eight transports guarded by eight destroyers. The Fifth Air Force pounced on the convoy in the Bismarck Sea. By March 5 all eight transports and four destroyers had been sunk. This volume examines the mechanics of skip-bombing combined with a strafing B-25, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the combatants (B-25 versus destroyer), and revealing the results o...
Mark Lardas, educated as a naval architect, worked for more than 30 years as an engineer, space navigator and technical writer in the space, aviation and energy industries. He has an abiding interest in aerospace, maritime, naval, and military history, with an emphasis on ship construction and engineering from the ninth to the twenty-first centuries. He is the author of more than 24 published books on these subjects.
125 OSPREY PUBLISHING DECEMBER 2021
Cuzco 1536–37 Battle for the heart of the Inca Empire
Si Sheppard
A highly illustrated and detailed study of one of the most important campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, the Spanish conquest of the vast Inca Empire.
On November 16, 1532, the Inca emperor Atahualpa was the most powerful man in South America. Now his authority was absolute over millions of subjects living in an empire that stretched 2,500 miles from the towering mountains of the Andes to the arid plains of the Pacific Coast. However, a group of strangers, HISTORY / LATIN AMERICA / SOUTH AMERICA comprising just 169 men led by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, Osprey Publishing | 12/21/2021 soon entered his empire. Despite having 80,000 men at his disposal, Atahualpa 9781472843807 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. was seized and imprisoned. Pizarro burned with the same ruthless ambition as Trade Paperback | 96 pages his cousin Hernán Cortés, who had taken Tenochtitlan and understood that by 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W seizing the autocrat at the top of the social structure, the state would be at his disposal. Pizarro then marched on Cuzco, the Inca capital, and installed a new puppet emperor, Manco. However, in 1536, Manco roused the people against the MARKETING intruders, and the Spaniards, having held sway over the entire empire, now Targeted publicity campaign to popular found themselves under siege in the capital, trying to hold back the military outlets and general military history publications overwhelming number of Inca warriors massing against them. This fascinating illustrated book documents the long and bloody siege and describes how at the end of ten bitter months, during which Pizarro was defeated at the battle of Ollantaytambo and lost his brother, Juan, while storming the great fortress of Sacsayhuamán, Pizarro emerged the victor. Using photos, documents, and historical sources to illustrate the story, this volume brings an anci...
London-born Si Sheppard completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in New Zealand before receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He is currently an associate professor of political science and international relations at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, and has written several titles for Osprey focusing on the interrelationship between geography, technology, and strategy. He lives in New York.
126 OSPREY PUBLISHING DECEMBER 2021
Truk 1944–45 The destruction of Japan's Central Pacific bastion
Mark Lardas
A fully illustrated history of how with Operation Hailstone the U.S. Navy and the British Pacific Fleet destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific.
In early 1944, the Japanese island base of Truk was their Pearl Harbor, a powerful naval and air base that had to be reduced and neutralized before the Allies could fight their way any further toward Tokyo. But Truk was also the most heavily defended naval base outside the Japanese Home Islands. An Allied HISTORY / MILITARY / AVIATION invasion would be too costly, and long-range bombing against Truk intact would Osprey Publishing | 12/21/2021 9781472845856 | $24.00 / $32.50 Can. be a massacre. Instead, a plan was conceived to neutralize Truk through a series Trade Paperback | 96 pages of massive naval raids, led by the growing U.S. carrier fleet. Operation Hailstone 9.8 in H | 7.2 in W would be one of the most famous operations by American carriers in the Pacific. Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and at least 14pp of colour illustrations This book examines the rise and fall of Truk as a Japanese bastion, and explains how in two huge raids, American carrier-based aircraft reduced it to irrelevance. It also tells the little-known story of how in follow-up campaigns the USAAF used the ravaged base as a live-fire training ground for its new B-29s— MARKETING whose bombing raids also ensured Truk could not be reactivated by the Targeted publicity campaign to popular military outlets, general military history Japanese. The pressure was kept up right through 1945, with Truk being used as publications, WWII outlets, and military air a target for the 509th Composite Squadron to practice dropping its atomic media bombs, and by the British Pacific Fleet to hone its pilots’ combat skill prior to the invasion of Japan, in the Royal Navy’s only action in the central Pacific.
Mark Lardas studied naval architecture and marine engineering, but his interest in aviation led him to take a job on the then-new Space Shuttle program. Over the next 30 years he worked as a navigation engineer on the Shuttle program. Currently he works developing commercial aircraft systems as a quality assurance manager. He has written extensively about aircraft and warships and is the author of 25 books, all related to military, naval, or maritime history.
127 Index
101 Tips for Stress-Free Sailing; Duncan Wells...... 72 British and Irish Moths: Third Edition: A Photographic Abundance: Nature in Recovery; Karen Lloyd...... 75 Guide; Chris Manley...... 66 Adams, Gregg; Japanese Soldier vs US Soldier: New Guinea British Moths: A Gateway Guide; James Lowen...... 74 1942–44...... 104 British Sniping Rifles since 1970: L42A1, L96A1 and Aesop’s Animals: The Facts Behind the Fables; Jo L115A3; Steve Houghton...... 118 Wimpenny...... 36 Bronze Lie, The: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Agarwal, Pragya; Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias . . . . 46. Supremacy; Myke Cole...... 86 Anarchy, The: The East India Company, Corporate Busby, Jill Louise; Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity ...... 3. Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire; William Dalrymple . . Buttar, Prit; The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, ...... 19 1944...... 103 Anderson, Thomas; Panzergrenadier...... 90 Buzzati, Dino; The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily...... 82 Angier, Carole; Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald . . . Campbell, Laurie; Ripples on the River: Celebrating the Return ...... 47 of the Otter...... 65 Anton Danyluk: 50 Steps to the Best Version of Yourself; Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Anton Danyluk...... 67 Confused, and Conflicted; Daniel Sokatch...... 8 Armies of Julius Caesar 58–44 BC; Raffaele D’Amato . . . 93. Carothers, Dale; The Battle of Britain: Struggle for the skies . . Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688–97; Gabriele ...... 113 Esposito...... 105 Carter, Kendall; Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2022 ...... 57. B-25 Mitchell vs Japanese Destroyer: Battle of the Chambers, Mark; Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units...... 94 Bismarck Sea 1943; Mark Lardas...... 125 Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at Bahr, Alan; Heirs to Heresy: The Fall of the Knights Templar: A War 1895–1945; Anthony Tucker-Jones...... 114 Roleplaying Game...... 100 Clarke, Susanna; Piranesi...... 4 Baking with Fortitude; Dee Rettali...... 41 Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey; Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club, The: Ball, Georgia; The Battle for Guadalcanal: Hell in the Pacific . . Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War...... 117 ...... 88 Cole, Myke; The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Barker, Yolanda; The Breathing Revolution: Train yourself to Warrior Supremacy...... 86 breathe properly to banish anxiety and find your inner calm . . . Coming Clean: A true story of love, addiction and recovery ...... 38 ; Liz Fraser...... 25 Battle for Guadalcanal, The: Hell in the Pacific; Georgia Ball Complete Yachtmaster, The: Sailing, Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper 10th edition; Tom ...... 88 Cunliffe...... 73 Battle of Britain, The: Struggle for the skies; Dale Carothers Court of Thorns and Roses Hardcover Box Set, A; Sarah J...... 113 Maas...... 20 Battle of Hue 1968, The: Fight for the Imperial City; James Creation: Art from the Beginning; John-Paul Stonard . . . . 49. H Willbanks...... 121 Cunliffe, Tom; Complete Yachtmaster, The: Sailing, Bean, Anita; Vegan Athlete's Cookbook, The: Protein-rich Seamanship and Navigation for the Modern Yacht Skipper 10th recipes to train, recover and perform...... 76 edition...... 73 Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, The; Dino Buzzati . . . . 82. Cuzco 1536–37: Battle for the heart of the Inca Empire; Si Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins Sheppard...... 126 and Evolution; Elsa Panciroli...... 12 D’Amato, Raffaele; Armies of Julius Caesar 58–44 BC . . . . 93. Beheld; TaraShea Nesbit...... 22 Dabbous, Ollie; Essential...... 31 Benali, Francis; Francis Benali: The Autobiography...... 68 Dalrymple, William; The Anarchy: The East India Company, Benedict XVI: A Life: Volume Two: Guardian of the Faith, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire...... 19 Pope, Pope Emeritus 1965–The Present; Peter Seewald . . . Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime; Debora ...... 24 Harding...... 9 Bernstein, Jonathan; P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Danyluk, Anton; Anton Danyluk: 50 Steps to the Best Version of Defences: Western Europe 1943–45...... 108 Yourself...... 67 Betton, Keith; Where to Watch Birds in Dorset, Hampshire and Desert Storm 1991: The most shattering air campaign in the Isle of Wight: 5th Edition...... 79 history; Richard P. Hallion...... 123 Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France . . . Don Revie: The Definitive Biography; Christopher Evans ...... 87 ...... 81 Boatyard Book, The: A boatowner's guide to yacht Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2; Chris Goss...... 95 maintenance, repair and refitting; Simon Jollands...... 71 Douglas XB-19: America's giant World War II Boergers, Richard; Finish Strong: Resistance Training for intercontinental bomber; William Wolf...... 110 Endurance Athletes...... 52 Esposito, Gabriele; Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance Bolt Action: Campaign: Italy: Soft Underbelly; Warlord 1688–97...... 105 Games...... 101 Essential; Ollie Dabbous...... 31 Booker, Christopher; The Great Deception: The True Story of Essentials of Contemporary Marketing, The; Mo Willan . . . Britain and the European Union...... 11 ...... 44 Brayfield, Celia; Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Evans, Christopher; Don Revie: The Definitive Biography . . 81. Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Fairhall, David; Pass Your Yachtmaster...... 51 Forster...... 45 Farmer's Lawyer, The: The North Dakota Nine and the Breathing Revolution, The: Train yourself to breathe Fight to Save the Family Farm; Sarah Vogel...... 17 properly to banish anxiety and find your inner calm; Farrington, Eric; Wars of the Republic: Ancient Roman Yolanda Barker...... 38 Wargaming 343–50 BC...... 112 Brian Boru: High King of Ireland; Peer Sylvester...... 99 Feathers: An Identification Guide to the Feathers of Jollands, Simon; Boatyard Book, The: A boatowner's guide to Western European Birds; Cloé Fraigneau...... 64 yacht maintenance, repair and refitting...... 71 Field Guide to the Birds of Bangladesh; Richard Grimmett . Konstam, Angus; Warships in the Spanish Civil War...... 111 ...... 63 Krimstein, Ken; When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Fight Night; Miriam Toews...... 15 Six Yiddish Teenagers...... 7 Finish Strong: Resistance Training for Endurance Athletes; Kurdish Armour Against ISIS: YPG/SDF tanks, technicals Richard Boergers...... 52 and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014–19; Ed Nash . . . . 97. Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939–40, The: Stalin's hollow Lardas, Mark; B-25 Mitchell vs Japanese Destroyer: Battle of victory; David Murphy...... 92 the Bismarck Sea 1943...... 125 Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System; Natalie Lardas, Mark; Truk 1944–45: The destruction of Japan's Starkey...... 37 Central Pacific bastion...... 127 Forczyk, Robert; Stalingrad 1942–43 (2): The Fight for the City Last Viking, The: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada; ...... 91 Don Hollway...... 84 Fraigneau, Cloé; Feathers: An Identification Guide to the Leading Remotely: Achieving Success in a Globally Feathers of Western European Birds...... 64 Connected World; Mike Parkes...... 10 Francis Benali: The Autobiography; Francis Benali . . . . . 68. Least of Us, The: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth; Sam Quinones...... 14 Frans Hals: The Male Portrait; Leila Packer...... 50 Leavitt, David; Shelter in Place...... 21 Fraser, Liz; Coming Clean: A true story of love, addiction and recovery...... 25 Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius; Harry Freedman...... 43 Freedman, Harry; Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius...... 43 Leyte Gulf 1944 (1): The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar; Mark Stille...... 120 From A to B: A Cartoon Guide to Getting Around by Bike; Dave Walker...... 53 Liptak, Eugene; US Navy Special Warfare Units in Korea and Vietnam: UDTs and SEALs, 1950–73...... 122 Frostgrave: Blood Legacy; Joseph A. McCullough...... 124 Lloyd, Karen; Abundance: Nature in Recovery...... 75 Futureproof Your Career: A Practical Guide to Success in the New Normal; Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj...... 35 Lowen, James; British Moths: A Gateway Guide...... 74 Galeotti, Mark; The Panjshir Valley 1980–86: The Lion Tames Lyman, Robert; War of Empires, A: Japan, India, Burma and the Bear in Afghanistan...... 106 Britain: 1941–45...... 116 Games, Warlord; Bolt Action: Campaign: Italy: Soft Underbelly Maas, Sarah J.; A Court of Thorns and Roses Hardcover Box Set...... 20 ...... 101 MacArthur’s Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific Goss, Chris; Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2...... 95 and the Far East, 1941–51; Bill Yenne...... 85 Great Deception, The: The True Story of Britain and the Macleod, Alison; Tenderness...... 6 European Union; Christopher Booker...... 11 Manley, Chris; British and Irish Moths: Third Edition: A Grimmett, Richard; Field Guide to the Birds of Bangladesh . . . Photographic Guide...... 66 ...... 63 McCullough, Joseph A.; Frostgrave: Blood Legacy...... 124 Hallion, Richard P.; Desert Storm 1991: The most shattering air McCullough, Joseph A.; Stargrave: Quarantine 37...... 83 campaign in history...... 123 McCullough, Joseph A.; The Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Harding, Debora; Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Napoleonic Gothic Horror...... 98 Crime...... 9 Murphy, David; The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939–40: Hart, Adam; Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides Stalin's hollow victory...... 92 with the Modern World...... 48 Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden, The; Kate Saunders . . . 40. Haywood, Steve; Tales from the Tillerman: A Life-long Love Affair with Britain's Waterways...... 70 Nash, Ed; Kurdish Armour Against ISIS: YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014–19 . . . . . 97. Heirs to Heresy: The Fall of the Knights Templar: A Roleplaying Game; Alan Bahr...... 100 Nesbit, TaraShea; Beheld...... 22 Herbert, Tim; Intentional Leader, The: How Inner Authority Can Next Great Migration, The: The Beauty and Terror of Life Unleash Strong Leadership...... 33 on the Move; Sonia Shah...... 5 Holland 1940: The Luftwaffe's first setback in the West; Nijboer, Donald; SBD Dauntless vs A6M Zero-sen: 1942–44 Ryan K. Noppen...... 96 Pacific...... 109 Hollway, Don; Last Viking, The: The True Story of King Harald Noppen, Ryan K.; Holland 1940: The Luftwaffe's first setback in Hardrada...... 84 the West...... 96 Houghton, Steve; British Sniping Rifles since 1970: L42A1, Nunn, Patrick; Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in L96A1 and L115A3...... 118 Science, Memory and Myth...... 13 Imrie, Celia; Orphans of the Storm...... 39 Orphans of the Storm; Celia Imrie...... 39 Intentional Leader, The: How Inner Authority Can Unleash Owen, Sri; The Rice Book...... 32 Strong Leadership; Tim Herbert...... 33 P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defences: Western Island of Missing Trees, The: A Novel; Elif Shafak...... 26 Europe 1943–45; Jonathan Bernstein...... 108 Jacobsen, Rowan; Truffle Hound: On the Trail of the World’s Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Okinawa; Mark Stille...... 102 Extraordinary Dogs...... 16 Packer, Leila; Frans Hals: The Male Portrait...... 50 Janjuha-Jivraj, Shaheena; Futureproof Your Career: A Practical Panciroli, Elsa; Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Guide to Success in the New Normal...... 35 Origins and Evolution...... 12 Japanese Soldier vs US Soldier: New Guinea 1942–44; Panini Football Stickers: The Official Celebration; Panini . . Gregg Adams...... 104 ...... 80 Johnson, Bill; Practical Skipper: Essential notes and checklists Panini; Panini Football Stickers: The Official Celebration . . . 80. for day and coastal skippers...... 54 Panjshir Valley 1980–86, The: The Lion Tames the Bear in Afghanistan; Mark Galeotti...... 106 Panzergrenadier; Thomas Anderson...... 90 Somerville, Phil; Practical Guide to Celestial Navigation, The: Parkes, Mike; Leading Remotely: Achieving Success in a Step-by-step instructions for when you've lost the plot . . . . . 78. Globally Connected World...... 10 Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald; Carole Angier . . Pass Your Yachtmaster; David Fairhall...... 51 ...... 47 Performance Curve,The: Maximize Your Potential at Work Stalingrad 1942–43 (2): The Fight for the City; Robert while Strengthening Your Well-being; Laura Watkins . . . . 34. Forczyk...... 91 Pilkington, Mark; Retail Recovery: How Creative Retailers Are Stanley, Tim; Whatever Happened to Tradition?: How We Winning in Their Post-Apocalyptic World...... 23 Destroyed It and Why We Want It Back...... 42 Piranesi; Susanna Clarke...... 4 Stargrave: Quarantine 37; Joseph A. McCullough...... 83 Power Worshippers, The: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Starkey, Natalie; Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar Religious Nationalism; Katherine Stewart...... 18 System...... 37 Practical Guide to Celestial Navigation, The: Step-by-step Stewart, Katherine; The Power Worshippers: Inside the instructions for when you've lost the plot; Phil Somerville . Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism...... 18 ...... 78 Stille, Mark; Leyte Gulf 1944 (1): The Battles of the Sibuyan Practical Skipper: Essential notes and checklists for day Sea and Samar...... 120 and coastal skippers; Bill Johnson...... 54 Stille, Mark; Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Previous Life, A; Edmund White...... 27 Harbor to Okinawa...... 102 Psycho by the Sea; Lynne Truss...... 30 Stille, Mark; The United States Navy in World War II: From Quinones, Sam; The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Pearl Harbor to Okinawa...... 115 Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth...... 14 Stonard, John-Paul; Creation: Art from the Beginning . . . . . 49. Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias; Pragya Agarwal . . 46. • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Sylvester, Peer; Brian Boru: High King of Ireland...... 99 Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster; Celia Tales from the Tillerman: A Life-long Love Affair with Brayfield...... 45 Britain's Waterways; Steve Haywood...... 70 Reckoning, The: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944; Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946–60: Early Cold War armor in Prit Buttar...... 103 Central Europe; Steven J. Zaloga...... 119 Reeds Astro Navigation Tables 2022; Kendall Carter . . . . 57. Tenderness; Alison Macleod...... 6 Reeds Channel Almanac 2022...... 58 Thompson, David; Undaunted: Reinforcements: Expansion to Reeds Eastern Almanac 2022...... 59 the Board Game Geek Award-Winning WWII Deckbuilding Reeds Looseleaf Almanac 2022 (inc binder)...... 62 Game...... 89 Reeds Looseleaf Update Pack 2022...... 61 Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories; Reeds Nautical Almanac 2022...... 55 Hilma Wolitzer...... 2 Reeds Vol 13: Ship Stability, Powering and Resistance; Toews, Miriam; Fight Night...... 15 Jonathan Ridley...... 56 Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club, The: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam Reeds Vol 2: Applied Mechanics for Marine Engineers; Paul War; Thomas McKelvey Cleaver...... 117 A Russell...... 69 Truffle Hound: On the Trail of the World’s Most Seductive Reeds Western Almanac 2022...... 60 Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs; Rowan Jacobsen...... 16 Retail Recovery: How Creative Retailers Are Winning in Their Post-Apocalyptic World; Mark Pilkington...... 23 Truk 1944–45: The destruction of Japan's Central Pacific bastion; Mark Lardas...... 127 Rettali, Dee; Baking with Fortitude...... 41 Truss, Lynne; Psycho by the Sea...... 30 Rice Book, The; Sri Owen...... 32 Tucker-Jones, Anthony; Churchill, Master and Commander: Ridley, Jonathan; Reeds Vol 13: Ship Stability, Powering and Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945...... 114 Resistance...... 56 Undaunted: Reinforcements: Expansion to the Board Ripples on the River: Celebrating the Return of the Otter; Game Geek Award-Winning WWII Deckbuilding Game; Laurie Campbell...... 65 David Thompson...... 89 Ruhr 1943, The: The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with industrial heartland; Richard Worrall...... 107 the Modern World; Adam Hart...... 48 Russell, Paul A; Reeds Vol 2: Applied Mechanics for Marine Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity; Jill Louise Busby . . . . 3. Engineers...... 69 United States Navy in World War II, The: From Pearl Harbor Saint from Texas, A; Edmund White...... 29 to Okinawa; Mark Stille...... 115 Saunders, Kate; The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden . . . . . 40. US Navy Special Warfare Units in Korea and Vietnam: SBD Dauntless vs A6M Zero-sen: 1942–44 Pacific; Donald UDTs and SEALs, 1950–73; Eugene Liptak...... 122 Nijboer...... 109 Vegan Athlete's Cookbook, The: Protein-rich recipes to Seewald, Peter; Benedict XVI: A Life: Volume Two: Guardian of train, recover and perform; Anita Bean...... 76 the Faith, Pope, Pope Emeritus 1965–The Present...... 24 Vogel, Sarah; The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine Shafak, Elif; The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel...... 26 and the Fight to Save the Family Farm...... 17 Shah, Sonia; The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror Walker, Dave; From A to B: A Cartoon Guide to Getting Around of Life on the Move...... 5 by Bike...... 53 Shelter in Place; David Leavitt...... 21 War of Empires, A: Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941– Sheppard, Si; Cuzco 1536–37: Battle for the heart of the Inca 45; Robert Lyman...... 116 Empire...... 126 Ward, Mat; What Dogs Want...... 28 Silver Bayonet, The: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Wars of the Republic: Ancient Roman Wargaming 343–50 Horror; Joseph A. McCullough...... 98 BC; Eric Farrington...... 112 Sokatch, Daniel; Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Warships in the Spanish Civil War; Angus Konstam . . . . 111. Curious, Confused, and Conflicted...... 8 Watkins, Laura; Performance Curve,The: Maximize Your Potential at Work while Strengthening Your Well-being . . . . 34. Wells, Duncan; 101 Tips for Stress-Free Sailing...... 72 What Dogs Want; Mat Ward...... 28 Whatever Happened to Tradition?: How We Destroyed It and Why We Want It Back; Tim Stanley...... 42 When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers; Ken Krimstein...... 7 Where to Watch Birds in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: 5th Edition; Keith Betton...... 79 White, Edmund; A Previous Life...... 27 White, Edmund; A Saint from Texas...... 29 Willan, Mo; Essentials of Contemporary Marketing, The . . . 44. Willbanks, James H; Battle of Hue 1968, The: Fight for the Imperial City...... 121 Wimpenny, Jo; Aesop’s Animals: The Facts Behind the Fables ...... 36 Wolf, William; Douglas XB-19: America's giant World War II intercontinental bomber...... 110 Wolitzer, Hilma; Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories...... 2 Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth; Patrick Nunn...... 13 Worrall, Richard; The Ruhr 1943: The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s industrial heartland...... 107 Writers on Writing: The Writers’ & Artists’ Book of Quotations...... 77 Yenne, Bill; MacArthur’s Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51...... 85 Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units; Mark Chambers...... 94 Zaloga, Steven J.; Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946–60: Early Cold War armor in Central Europe...... 119